Sociology -- Social Work
Poverty
Poverty is the condition of one who lacks a definite amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the one who lacks basic human needs, which normally includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. Nearly two billion people are anticipated to live in absolute poverty today. Relative poverty refers to lacking a normal or communally acceptable level of resources or income as compared with others within a society or nation. For most of history poverty had been typically accepted as foreseeable as conventional modes of production were inadequate to give an entire population a comfortable standard of living. After the industrial revolution, mass production in factories made wealth increasingly more economical and accessible. Of more importance is the transformation of agriculture, such as fertilizers, in order to provide sufficient yields to feed the population (Poverty, 2012).
People living in poverty tend to be gathered in certain neighborhoods rather than being evenly dispersed across geographic areas. Measuring this concentration of poverty is significant because researchers have found that living in areas with many other poor people places burdens on low-income families beyond what the families' own individual conditions would dictate. Many argue that this concentration of poverty consequences in higher crime rates, underperforming public schools, poor housing and health conditions, as well as limited access to private services and job opportunities. In acknowledgment of these burdens, some government programs target resources to areas with concentrated poverty (Areas with Concentrated Poverty: 2006 -- 2010., 2011).
Poverty will never end unless there are real solutions to end it. These solutions have to be based on economic justice and political changes. The reasons for poverty as a social dilemma include ignorance, disease, apathy, dishonesty and dependency. If it is the choice of a group of people, as in a society or in a community, to decrease and get rid of poverty, they will have to, without value judgment, watch and recognize these factors, and take action to abolish them as the way to eliminate poverty. "These main factors contribute to secondary factors such as lack of markets, poor infrastructure, poor leadership, bad governance, under-employment, lack of skills, absenteeism, lack of capital, and others" (Bartle, 2011).
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