Defining Poverty in America

Poverty is an important emotional problem. Last year, the Census Bureau announced an annual report on poverty in the United States and announced in 2002 that nearly 35 million poor people were there. It increased slightly from last year. In order to understand the situation of poverty in the United States, it is important to examine the situation behind these figures. Please look at the real living environment where the government is considering the poor. For most Americans, the term "poverty" means poverty. In other words, it is impossible to provide families with nutritious foods, clothes and reasonable accommodation.

How the United States defines poverty is outdated and just hurts how poor families and governments can help them. Due to the overall success rate and average income of Americans for the entire world, there is only a small fraction (defined as basic requirement) defined as living in absolute poverty . - The definition of PR practice can be a task that makes it difficult for experts to outline their function and overall content without disturbing their work even marketing or advertising. Therefore, in order to simplify its parameters and distinguish activities, this work is intended to explain the differences and similarities between these professions.

Poverty culture for Michael Harrington to discuss American poverty in "Another America" ​​(1962) is also an important concept. For Harrington, the culture of poverty is a structural concept defined by a repulsive social system that creates and sustains the cycle of poverty in the United States. Since the 1960's, critics of poverty culture have explained the survival of the lower class (Goode & Eames 1996) trying to prove that real world data does not conform to the Lewis model. In 1974, anthropologist Carol Stark criticized it as 'fatal' and stated that the way to believe in the cultural concept of poverty is not to explain the poor.