can someone give me a critical thinking question for research about poverty?
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The falling of many Middle Class People to being below the Poverty level, without changing anything in their lives has always amazed me.  Of course the amount of people in your family has to do with the level of the Poverty being set.  Think about the fact that many people are actually living the same life as they always have, same job, same home, same family and have fallen under the poverty level and not known about it. I think that would be an interesting place to start.  I believe that we think of poverty as having nothing and the government sets levels that makes many who live decent lives fall under poverty levels.  By this it is like the calling of Beverly Hills as an economically disadvantaged city because of the lack of jobs per capita in that city.  Well it is that way because the land is mainly used for individual residences and that is the way they want it, yet under government guidelines it falls into that category.  What I am saying is that you need to start with placing an actual definition of poverty and then look at the people who don't fit the category and then question why?
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Start with yourselves. Have discipline and motivation to have a good education and a decent job. Poverty are mostly the result of undisciplined indidviduals within the society. They often complain and ask the government to help them but they don't even tried to help themselves. Also we all should have a new government. Vote for those right in the position and not because you are being paid. Officials can't make this thing a positive issue at this moment because they're so busy with their own "business" so we really can't rely our future to them. We can do it step-by-step.
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Could you tell me what exactly you're looking for? I deal with a lot of these data problems at work everyday. I need to understand a few things:1. What geography are you talking about? 2. For what are you doing the report? school/b-school/business? 3. What do sort of inferences are you looking for in your data? Do you want to establish eating habits/buying behaviour/etc? You can write to me on equitymonkinlove@yahoo.com
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Your question is both timely and poignant.  There are still people who believe that poverty can be eradicated simply by providing people with more social service benefits, and there are those who still believe that higher minimum wages (living wages) will solve these problems.  Poverty and despair are the main underlying causes of crime, and to address them, society must adequately address illiteracy and must make advanced education and training available to a larger number of its citizens.  We can no longer afford to have a college education be as expensive as many people could afford to pay for shelter.  We can no longer afford to have the only good elementary and secondary schools in many communities be the expensive and highly selective private ones that are beyond the reach of the people who live in the neighborhoods in which these schools lie.  In a nutshell, our educational system is in complete disarray from top to bottom.  Teachers are grossly underpaid, but the standards are so low to enter that otherwise noble profession that the field attracts way too many people who are not qualified to work anywhere else.  If our teachers were paid commensurate with the experience, skill, expertise, and success ratio they each individually bring to the table, and those who did not measure up to the much higher standard we must adopt were fired for cause (or retrained and then reemployed), our students would learn much more of what they need to learn.  Illiteracy would improve because teaching would improve.  Crime would improve because literacy would make more people gainfully employable and poverty would have a significantly reduced effect on our society.
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Lack of education and understanding. I feel our schools and society fail miserably to prepare students for life on the outside. When I finally got out on my own I didn't have a clue how to obtain an apartment, phone or utilities. I didn't know how to shop for bargains, balance a checkbook or manage my money. I was raised to beleive that if you work hard you will do well. That is not necessarilly the case. Life is competitive. You either choose to compete or you don't, however, we are not all endowed with equal abillities. Handicaps are not always visible. Some people seem to have been born with everythiong going for them. Others seem to never get a break. I am a healthy middle aged individual. All I have ever wanted is to be able to earn a moderate living. This I have accomplished but it is not a secure living nor is it moderate to everyone's standards. According to most people I have a moderate house, 2 used cars and the abilities to pay the bills and still have a little left over however I make twice as much as the average individual. There are many things I could do without, such as the second car and all expenses incured by it, my multimedia system including my computer, tv's, vcrs'dvds, cell phones... And then, there's all my other belongings such as boats, bikes, fancy clothes, toys, gadgets, dining out, nightclubs and all the expenses incurred therein as well. All this and I live alone! I know many familys with four generations living under the same roof just to survive. Now, here is the point, would I be willing to share it all if I knew I could get a family or even an individual off the street? Would you?\n I think the biggest cause of poverty is a lack of understanding, a willingness to turn a blind eye.\n Laziness? Yes, I feel laziness is the root cause of poverty, not on behalf of the impoverished but on behalf of all of us who continue to allow it to go on, all of us who feel someone else will do something about it.\n How do we fix it? Seek those who have not, find out why not and help them to overcome.\n Put and end to beurocracy, pork barrel programs, illicit foreign aid, tax evaders and gougers so we can have the money it will take to help.\n Teach our schools to focus more on 'Life Economics' and make it a requirement. Identify the individual talents of children and guide them along the right path for them. Don't penalize and ridicule them because they may not be good at math, taking tests or sports. Stop being so damned two dimensional and realise there is a universe of possibilities awaiting all of us if we could only recognise the abillities of all individuals istead of a stereotyped few. Please forgive my longwinded answer but your's was a question worthy of the time. May we all prevail.
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So far the government has been a failure in response to poverty. Social programs don't work as they allow for to many people to cheat. How ever the Clinton approach was closest to the best in my opinion, he helped to create an environment where everybody that wanted to work could get a job. His welfare to work program, raising taxes on the very rich and reinvesting it in the poor without giving it to them might be something that needs to be looked into closer. Education is an influence on poverty. Everybody needs to be something whether it is a taxi driver or a doctor everybody has potential for something.
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I disagree that there is lots of help for the working poor, I have seen directly that unless you fit into the "low income requirement" scale, there is virtually no help for working people who need a hand to make it above poverty level. (I am speaking about the state of CA)
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To my opinion, I don't think poverty will ever become history. No matter how good the economy is, there will always be people going through wealth and poverty. There are tons of people in this world and there are always not enough food to feed people. The world can't benefit everyone, anytime.
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Here's a few spots to look at.  Hope they help.\n\nRegards
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Critical and analytical thinking
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the poor will always be with us \ncant change poverty can help the impoverished
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Many people are prejudiced against people they perceive to be poor. At least you got to see how it feels to be on the receiving end of that, and hopefully you will help and be friends with those who are deserving instead of blaming them for their circumstances. No disrespect meant by my comment--we all learn something new (hopefully) every day.
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I would go onto Amazon, there are books you can purchase on how to write an effective market research survey that are really helpful.  I've used a few for classes in the past.  You have to remember that the questions can't be leading.
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The best idea is to take something from current news:  The immigration law "reforms" being contemplated by the American Congress, for example.  The political and social questions that matter in your own area, or something from the world scene.\n\nThe other thing you can do is take a broad view of culture, or of a particular medium of culture, such as movies or music, and make a case for or against a particular analysis of its long-term significance.  \n\nFor example, what would you have said in 1965 if asked about the long-term impact of the Beatles?  Could you have predicted the path of the music industry?  The collectibles market?  Indian sitar music and imported goods from India?\n\nOK, view a current phenomenon like the new film project to produce the Chronicles of Narnia.  That's a fairly old set of books, after all.  What is the impact on young people today of having these stories come to life through the magic of filmmaking?  Stories they share with their grandparents!\n\nYou see, topics are all around you!
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Your question is so broad you are asking for\nan answer that could earn someone a Master's degree!\n\nI would say that resources is the major problem in these areas.  Lack of water, food, shelter, education, housing, medicine, doctors, ...
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Man, homework assignments have changed a great deal since I was a kid.\n\nThe simple answer is you can't. Because it's based on theory and there is no absolutes in theory. It's kinda like appraising a house, just on a larger scale and it pays way more.\n\nHowever, if you want to play along with that liberal socialistic crap that they brainwash you with in school, then to answer your question you will have to locate previous similar developments with similar variables (population demographics, geography, laws, economic factors and cycles, etc) and analyze the outcome to determine if the development increased the price of the affected area. Then you have to adjust your results if there were any additional variables that might have hindered or improved the results. Again, there is no absolutes in theory, so you could be way off even if your data was on par, especially since it was a government development plan, and not from the private sector. ;) \n\nRegards...
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