Letter to a Hard Working Citizen: The Reality of Poverty

Diligent Citizen's Letter: Reality of Poverty First of all, I would like to thank the letter you received but it seems that it took a long time to improve your opinion rather than facts. I received a letter from you, I investigated this issue. And I would like to tell you the facts and figures and the truth of the family based on the information you sent to me. Can you imagine that the cost of living for one year is £ 100.80? Since this is the highest point in 98.6% of the population of Malawi since 1980, 45.22% of children were forced to work in 1980 (because wages of adults are insufficient to feed the whole family), labor The time was 12 hours.

Reality: Millions of Americans benefiting from the government work hard, but still can not make a living. More than 10 million people with poor poverty can not work or are looking for work for at least half a year. The average period of time for families to participate in supplementary nutritional support programs is 8 to 10 months. Reality: President Johnson's "poverty eradication war" is a series of policy plans with clear goals of poverty reduction drafted in the 1960s, poverty rate from 26% to 16% between 1967 and 2012 But it fell drastically. However, more than 18.6 million Americans are still living below the poverty line including 15 million children.

Despite the enormous wealth of the country, poverty remains a reality for many people in the United States, despite the fact that the poverty rate of the elderly has drastically declined by programs such as social security and health insurance. At the beginning of the 21st century, more than one in ten people (one in six children under the age of 18) were living in poverty. About half of the poor live in families, and their families are full-time or part-time wage workers. Among the other people living in poverty, many are getting old and having obstacles to work, the majority of which are mothers of infants. The state provides varying amounts of aid to the poor and the US Department of Agriculture distributes low-cost food and food stamps to the poor through state and local government subsidies. Unemployment assistance under the Social Security Act of 1935 is covered by funds paid by workers and employers.