Poverty & Homelessness

MAJOR CAUSES 

•Drug abuse

•Poor/ lacking Education

•Too many jobs being part-time or low-wage

•Too many single-parent families

•A shortage of jobs

•Too many immigrants

•The welfare system

•Poor people lacking motivation

•A decline in moral values

•Overpopulation

Reasons why people might not help a homeless person

People might think they are lazy and should be working.

       –“Their young enough to work.”

•People might think they are going to use the money for something other than for food.

•People feel that they are sometimes lying about their living conditions.

Ways we are helping

•Government Programs

–Welfare

•Community centers

–Food/clothes donation centers

–Shelters

Ways we can help

•Instead of the Government just handing them money, they should help the people living in those conditions by helping them become independent and changing the way welfare hands out money. They should give incentives to people to go out and find help, not just hand these people money.

•By just handing people living in poverty money they learn to depend on in and feel that if they find a job, that their government aid might be taken away