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Anti Poverty in the United States

Even the richest nations in the world like the United States does not escape the problem of poverty. This paper takes a critical look at poverty and anti-poverty policies in the United States. In this article, I argued that poverty is caused by several factors. This document also covers the liberal and conservative to reduce poverty in America. The Conservatives have focused on individual factors such as wage differentials wide, family breakdown, the factors of race and other reasons, while the Liberals have focused on structural transformation of the economy U.S. to explain the persistence of poverty. Since 1960, federal and state governments have been responding with policies that address the problem with mixed results. In this article, I analyzed the policies and also recommended possible ways to cope with the rebellious nature of poverty.

According to Sen (1981), "The poor are those whose consumption of sub-standard standards, or whose incomes are below this line. The word "poverty" suggests destitution, unable to provide a family with nutritious food, clothing and reasonable shelter. More than thirty-six million Americans live below the official poverty line of U.S. (Blank, 2007). This means a family of three earning less than $ 16,000 for an individual earns $ 10.300 per year (Blank, 2007, p. 17). Millions more struggle each month to pay for basic necessities, or run savings when they lose their jobs or face health emergencies. Job cuts, high unemployment, foreclosures and food and gas prices continue to stimulate the formulation of policies to improve the condition of the poor.

Poverty is closely associated with poverty and suffering. The lost potential of children in poor households and low productivity and earnings of poor adults are all associated with poor health, increased crime and broken neighborhoods. Child poverty generally leads to health care in poor neighborhoods and high crime. Persistent childhood poverty is estimated to cost U.S. $ 500 billion annually, or about 4% of gross domestic product of the nation's gross domestic product (Blank, 2007, p.1).

One in eight Americans lives of poverty and poverty in the United States is much higher than in many developed countries (Rebecca Blank, 2007, p1). Inequality has a record. The richest 1 percent of Americans in 2005 held the largest share of national revenues (19%) since 1929 (Rebecca Blank, 2007, p. 2). At the same time the poorest 20% of Americans held only 3.4% of national revenues (Rebecca Blank, 2007, p.2).

Colorado, despite being surrounded by the magnificent Rocky Mountains and has a cool climate mountain has many homeless. The researchers found that a growing number of single parent families, a shortage of jobs for workers with low wages and low rates.