What Makes People Poor

Education has become a great factor on the increase of poverty in the United States. We are starting to see low income population increase, for the fact that less and less students are attending college for lack of resources and lack of money. Which is increasing the low income population in urban areas. We have more children living in poverty than ever before. We need to address the problem of why people are poor.

            Education is the path to a bright future, but for young teens who are raised without a father that path is not as bright as for boys who are raised with one.  According to the research, the labor market trajectory of males in the U.S. has turned downward along four dimensions:skills acquisition; employment rates; occupational stature; and real wage levels. The trends have been much worse for men than women because the absence of stable fathers from children’s lives has particularly significant adverse consequences for boys’ psychosocial development and educational achievement. By only being a teen boy who is fatherless, reduces their chances of going to college because they perform poorly throughout their high school years and aren’t able to apply to a college because they don’t have the academics needed to get accepted. What is interesting is that this has no effect on girls, they perform the same with or without a father figure.

            I’ve seen this happen too many of my guy friends when I was in high school, the ones that were raised with a single mother didn’t care about their education. Most of them got involved with drugs and gangs which caused them to disattend their education. I feel it’s because they needed that father figure to look up to, someone who they could relate to and act tough on them whenever they made a mistake. Even though they had a mother figure to look up to, she wasn’t the same for teen boys since she was a women and didn't understand what boys went through in life. 

          You can also look at the increase of poor population on the issue that most jobs are shipped out of sea which causes the unemployment levers to raise. U.S. multinational corporations, the big brand-name companiesthat employ a fifth of all American workers… cut their work forces in the U.S.by 2.9 million during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4million. And it gets worst, The global electronics contract manufacturing industry reached a staggering $360 billion of revenue in2011, and is expected to expand to $426 billion by 2015.  If citizens are unable to get a job and sustain a family it causes, less people to get married, less martial births,and an increase in government support. How is it possible that the government continues to send jobs out of sea knowing that its citizens are suffering from unemployment and would sure need the job? Why would they rather pay people from another country instead of paying their own people? These are questions I still don’t seem to understand about our government. Seeing that more and more families are asking for government support and they still seem to not care much about them. Things need to change if we want to see our economy get better.

            Low income communities suffer from many inequalities. They don’t receive the same resources as the middle and rich classes do. With only increasing the minimum wage or increasing the quality of education so that they receive the same education as a child who is rich would, would change the outcome of his future. The foundation of programs for schools provides a level of subsistence—a minimum, or basiceducation, but not an education on the level found in the rich or middle-classdistricts. What we have is not equal funding, but an equal minimum, and therest of the funding is decided at the local level. So how is this fair for all low income children? They are always told that they couldn't succeed becuase they didn't try hard enough, but how are they going to succeed in life when they aren't getting the same resources as the rest of the children.  

            Many people argue that people are poor because they choose to be poor. They explain that if they really wanted to get a good paying job they would try harder to get one. But the issue is not that simply, even if they tried to get a better job, they suffer from many inequalities that prevent them from progressing in life.

            It will take a lot of effort on behalf of our government if they really want to help change the poverty increase. They will need to start providing low income communities with more resources and start creating more jobs to raise the unemployment lever and  provide families with programs that will help them stay as a family, so that we don’t have young teen boys being raised without a father and affecting their education. There are many things to be done if we want to start seeing a change in our economy and in our society and that time is now.