Examining Poverty and Homelessness

Examining Poverty and Homelessness Student’s Name Institution’s Affiliation’s Introduction Poverty is the state of having an insufficient amount to survive. Poverty exists in every continent in the world, but only severity varies from state to state. Poverty affects the people and causes struggles in one's life to meet the ends and goals through limited resources. Therefore, the poor people are finding life tough to cope up hence leave under stress and pressure. This paper reflects and describes the issues that are related to poverty and other factors that affect poverty and homelessness and outlining the key terms that are associated with homelessness and poverty. The paper has three parts to cover, and these include the socioeconomic, contextual and demographic dimensions of poverty and homelessness in the United States and globally. The second part of the paper entails the historical and one contemporary narrative and attitudes about persons experiencing poverty and homelessness. The third section involves the analysis and critique of local, national, and international policies and programs designed to know or end poverty and homelessness. Socioeconomic, contextual and demographic dimensions of poverty and homelessness in the United States and globally Socioeconomic, contextual and demographic aspects are the contributing factors to poverty and homelessness in the United States. Poverty is the inability to meet the daily basic needs through resources and finance. On the other hand, homelessness is a state of lacking a home to leave in. Socioeconomic factors affect poverty and homelessness in the United States and globally because of the social classes. The people with better income leave affluently, and those with lower income strive in poverty (Marinaro & Thomassen, 2014). The case similarly applies to the homelessness because the rich can afford the affluent homes both at the cities and the village. However, the people of the lower social class cannot afford to have homes both in the towns and the village making them homeless. Based on these two contexts of the socioeconomic levels, it is clear that socioeconomic classes contribute to poverty and homelessness in the community. Contextual dimension also plays a critical role in determining the poverty level that one can belong to. The contextual involves tracing one background and how it contributes to the poverty level of an individual. The history that one comes from dictates the living standard of the person. For instance, people from affluent families accumulate enough wealth for their children while poor people have nothing to give to their children. The person who inherits wealth from the parent can suffer poverty under minimal circumstances as compared to the people who inherit no wealth from their parents (Marinaro & Thomassen, 2014). The contextual factor contributes significantly in determining the poverty level. The person from a poor background finds it challenging to rise because they struggle to make life supportive by only getting the basic needs. However, if the rise the ladder by getting goods jobs that pay enough, the dependency of the money goes high because of support to the rest of the low-income family hence making the one not to invest in elevating from the social strata. Additionally, poor people find it difficult to find quality education in the United States of America hence securing good jobs that require highly educated individuals is not easy. Therefore, the chances that they would remain in the same poverty level because of lack of education are much higher. The demographic dimension factor also plays a significant role in determining the poverty level of people in ...