A Current Event . . .Poverty

As of February 2012 the amount of people that are living on $2 a day, has doubled since 1996. (David Walsh)

 http://wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/pove-f25.sthml

This article focuses on a side of poverty that is often left unaddressed, aside from the random infomercial fund raiser; it’s about the children that are affected by poverty. More important, nay more domestically the children that live in, what David Walsh describes as extreme poverty. “They adopt the World Bank’s standard for determining the poorest of the global poor; subsist on $2 a day or less.” (Walsh, 2012)

In researching this social issue, a lot has come to light.

That this “issue” it’s actually a pandemic, and the more I research the more hopeless it seems that there will be and answer. At the core what we’re talking about is deeply and permanently changing the way people think, then they relate, especially emotionally with money. Conversely it is excruciatingly difficult to build beneficial spending habits when you quite literally have no money. “This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on $60 a month, i.e., essentially on no income whatsoever.” (Walsh, 2012).

This startling statistic begs the question of, for all the programs that exist, truly how affective are they?  There are literally more people living in and around poverty now than ever before, even more than during the Great Depression. I don’t have a definitive declaration as to what exactly should or could be done as of now, only empathy.