Homelessness and Poverty

Hi, my name is Jordan James and my presentation is

on homelessness and poverty.

So first I want to go over measuring, well, we're

gonna go over five different things measuring homelessness and poverty,

homelessness in America the effects of homelessness and poverty on

society towards a better future.

And my conclusion, so measuring homelessness and poverty when looking

at homelessness and poverty is and it is important to

note, but there are more indicators of poverty or homelessness

than just low income things like health, nutrition, child mortality,

education, years of schooling or attendance, standard of living, cooking,

fuel, toilet, water, electricity Florence assets are all important factors

that go into a quality lifestyle.

The multi poverty multidimensional poverty index is a measure of

serious deprivation in the dimensions of health, education and living

standards that combines the number of deprived and the intensity

of their deprivation.

So what is relative poverty, relative poverty refers to the

lack of material and economic resources compared with some other

population. What is absolute poverty, absolute poverty refers to the

lack of resources necessary for someone's well being While extreme

poverty, which is most widely used with standard and measuring

poverty is defined as an income that earns less than

$1.25 a day.

And as of 2015, there are a billion around a

billion people who live in extreme poverty homelessness in America.

In one of the wealthiest countries on the earth, some

of the highest poverty rates can be found in America.

The attitudes towards the homeless population in America is very,

is a very mean one in which the average individualists

would see an impoverished man or woman and immediately begins

if you that as a result of individual failures, failures.

Mm These shortcomings include not working hard enough, making bad

decisions or failure to acquire sufficient skills.

Anti homeless violence.

According to the national coalition for the homeless since 2014,

there has been a surgeon unprovoked, violent and sometimes fatal

attacks against the homeless individuals because police don't have a

very good relationship with the homeless.

Well these relationships very a lot.

But typically relationships are never very good because they're they're

dynamic is to take them off the property.

Um because police don't have a very good relationship with

the homeless, a lot of these attacks never get reported.

So whatever is on the public record to researchers is

just the beginning of what is truly out there.

Yeah. Um how it becomes a structural issue.

What goes unrecognized is that there is a basic problem

and how many valuable opportunities are given to those who

are going through poverty or homelessness?

According to the article.

Rethinking american poverty over the past 30 years, the U.

S. Economy has been producing more and more low paying

jobs part time jobs and jobs without benefits.

And it's estimated approximately one third of all jobs are

low paying, less than $11.50 an hour beyond those beyond

those in low paying jobs.

There are a million unemployed americans at any point.

Um During the recent economic downturn, 67 people have been

competing for every single job opening, coupled with the country's

lack of universal coverage for childcare, healthcare and about affordable

housing. This situation leaves an increasing number of families economically

vulnerable patterns of poverty.

In the United States Poverty statistics show that more than

half Americans between ages 20 and 75 will spend at

least one year in poverty and one in three Americans

will experience a full year of extreme poverty at some

point in adult life.

For Children, About a third of us Children will experience

poverty for at least a part of their childhood, and

10 of Children are persistently poor, ultimately are persistently poor,

ultimately spending half of about half of their lives in

poverty. How society is affected by homelessness, unequal income distribution

leads to more money being concentrated at the top, ultimately

leading to less distribution in local economies, uh, which would

go on to create an even bigger divide and income

distribution with the lack of access to resources such as

clean water, nutrition and sanitation.

Those who are going through homelessness are prone to many

other diseases that can harm them and many others on

top of this with limited incomes, people may not have

access or be able to afford healthier foods, such as

fresh produce, which tend to be on the more expensive

inside the cost, convenience foods that are higher in calories.

Sugar, salt, in fact, homelessness is also tied in increases

in other social issues such as drug abuse, obesity, marital

abuse and increased dropout rates.

History of homelessness.

In the United States is repetitive as the economy has

risen and fallen, homelessness rates have merited, waves of substance

abuse have rendered many individuals homeless.

Whether the drugs in question have been alcohol, crack cocaine,

methamphetamines are opioids towards a better future, there will never

be an exact formula to prevent or neutralize all forms

of homelessness.

But the important is that there are advocates for those

who are going through homelessness that are willing to help

those people out every single day.

Because it is a process that can take years to

recover from, to gather the resources and an income are

crucial factors to getting back into getting back into everyday

life. It's just surrounding the homeless homeless are typically disregarded

more than more than they are because more than they

are. Because even their presence in some states is seen

as a nuisance that these issues are essentially seen through

the lens of an individual pathology in which people bring

homelessness onto themselves as opposed to the systems that they

were part of.

In order to fix this, it would have to be

at a government level that is willing to fund programs

that help the homeless get back up on their feet

as opposed to removing the homeless off the streets.

And another article is discussed that in order to develop

better solutions to homeless issues, there has to be a

shift in thinking as far as recognizing how the homeless

became homeless.

American poverty is largely the result of failing at the

economic and political levels, rather than the individual level.

Ways to advocate the role of the society, engage with

local elected officials.

Most of the funding for the homeless programs come from

the federal block grants are given by states raising awareness

on this issue can help influence how the money is

spent, spend time in shelters and put names to faces,

engaging stories and find out what happened to get them

to that point.

Another thing to help advocate homelessness, advocate against homelessness is

donating anything that can be reused and recycled, which can

also help alleviate the issue of waste in America as

well as considering how much functional items we throw away

that could have been major used to someone else.

Most of all acknowledge that the homeless are human too,

and smile when you can through eye contact or a

little conversation, you can reaffirm sermons, humanity and it goes

a long way.

In conclusion, it's important that we recognize the two driving

forces which cause homelessness in America, which are lack of

affordable housing and poverty increases across the US.

This issue has to be handled at a government level

through new policies to advocate for housing.

First programs, for example, according to Patrick J.

Fowler, to achieve broad and sustainable reductions in housing insecurity,

homelessness prevention must be fully integrated into existing service networks,

along with other systems that help guide the recover recovery

process, which is where the role of science and research

come in to help better understand the dynamics of what

come with poverty and homelessness.

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