Poverty is Everywhere!
I have yet to hear from the individuals that I contact, so I have chosen this week to read from the research through podcast. This site is new to me, and I must say I was impressed.
I chose to read the information on Poverty in Columbia, Mexico. The presenter, Sabina Alkire, discussed the issues that has caused poverty to continue and how they receive their data. A lot of issues that were discussed included that many individuals view poverty as low-income, which is true because that is exactly what I thought at first. Poverty consist of low-income, health, education, mental ability, all factors that contribute to one not functioning to their full capabilities.
Poverty is an issue that is world-wide. In this video I learned how the government is trying to grasp hold as to why families are in the state that they are in. Yes, jobs was the leading factors because majority of the companies were closing, but what wasn't taken into consideration was the jobs coming back, but with less pay and the economy expensive rising. Childcare is another issue that wasn't taken into consideration. Caring for children is expensive and even more expensive when you have to pay someone else to care for your child.
Their are many factors that play a part of poverty and their are many programs that are launching to help wrap their arms around a successful plan to minimize the problem. With all the programs available, families need to seek out and work with the programs. We hear a lot of individuals who want help, but very few who actually seek out resources that are available to solve the problem, or at least lift some weight off of a person for the time being.
My hopes are the programs will be available in a sense where all individuals are a where of the resources and they will begin to be scene by individuals through commercial and/or flyers sent through the mail.
http://www.ophi.org.uk/case-studies-mpi-mexico-colombia/
http://www.ophi.org.uk/research/multidimensional-poverty/
