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    Poverty Essay

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    The document discusses the effects of global poverty. It notes that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, 328 million children under 18 live in poverty, 14 million people contract diseases due to poverty, and 68% of people in jail did not finish high school. Living in poverty can create a cycle that is difficult to break as lack of access to healthcare and education means children grow up without opportunities and the chance of escaping poverty decreases with each generation. Diseases also disproportionately affect those in poverty due to lack of access to clean water, healthcare, and nutrition. Finally, the document connects lack of education with higher crime rates.

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    Poverty Essay

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    The document discusses the effects of global poverty. It notes that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, 328 million children under 18 live in poverty, 14 million people contract diseases due to poverty, and 68% of people in jail did not finish high school. Living in poverty can create a cycle that is difficult to break as lack of access to healthcare and education means children grow up without opportunities and the chance of escaping poverty decreases with each generation. Diseases also disproportionately affect those in poverty due to lack of access to clean water, healthcare, and nutrition. Finally, the document connects lack of education with higher crime rates.

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    Ensayo sobre la pobreza. Lara Raidan

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    The document discusses the effects of global poverty. It notes that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, 328 million children under 18 live in poverty, 14 million people contract diseases due to poverty, and 68% of people in jail did not finish high school. Living in poverty can create a cycle that is difficult to break as lack of access to healthcare and education means children grow up without opportunities and the chance of escaping poverty decreases with each generation. Diseases also disproportionately affect those in poverty due to lack of access to clean water, healthcare, and nutrition. Finally, the document connects lack of education with higher crime rates.

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    Poverty Essay

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    Ariel Ramdan
    The document discusses the effects of global poverty. It notes that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, 328 million children under 18 live in poverty, 14 million people contract diseases due to poverty, and 68% of people in jail did not finish high school. Living in poverty can create a cycle that is difficult to break as lack of access to healthcare and education means children grow up without opportunities and the chance of escaping poverty decreases with each generation. Diseases also disproportionately affect those in poverty due to lack of access to clean water, healthcare, and nutrition. Finally, the document connects lack of education with higher crime rates.

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    The Effects of Global Poverty

    7.8 billion, 1.4 billion, 328 million, 14 million, and 68%. What are these numbers, you may
    ask? Number 1 indicates the world’s population and the following express numbers and
    percentages of people regarding poverty, a global issue that its solutions have been constantly
    discussed yet not put into action. Number two reveals how many the number of lives leaving in
    poor conditions, number three how many children, under the age of 18, are living in poverty;
    the penultimate digits express the number of people who contract diseases as a result of
    poverty, and; lastly, the number of people in jail who haven’t finished high school. Child
    poverty, diseases as a consequence of poverty, and crimes’ link to education: all effects of
    poverty.

    Let’s illustrate something the so called “reproduction of poverty”, a steel chain: almost
    impossible to break. A child grows in a poor environment, their parents work hard to provide a
    good life to their children, however, they can’t offer them proper healthcare or education. This
    child grows up having little to no education, thus, no job or money to provide to their children,
    making the cycle repeat itself. This repetitive chain is very difficult to be broken, as the chances
    of having a better life decrease from generation to generation. The World Bank tells us that
    104 million children who are under the age of five and 328 million who are under 18 live in
    poverty. Sadly, the life expectancy for these lives are low. In poor nations, 13.5% children pass
    away before the age of five. As a matter of fact, children have 19 times more the chance of
    dying in poor nations in contrast of wealthy ones, where children have access to education,
    healthcare, food, and clean water.

    As a consequence of polluted water, malnutrition, lack of personal hygiene and proper


    healthcare, diseases, which poor people, mostly, can’t defend themselves against from, are
    created and affect dangerously 14 million people. These include HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis,
    malaria, (threatening) diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and schistosomiasis. According to the World
    Health Organization, 2.4 billion don’t have access to proper healthcare, resulting in the deaths
    of 2 million children per year due to diarrhea, and the infecting of 40 million. Improper
    healthcare, one of the main reasons for health-related deaths, is only available to the 38% in
    poor nations, while healthcare is available for almost everyone in wealthy ones. Contaminated
    water, another main reason, is available to 67% of people in poor nations while, yet again,
    available to almost everyone, just like food, healthcare, water, and education, in wealthy
    nations.

    It is true that education (the lack of) and crime are strongly linked. Education is necessary not
    only for learning the concepts an individual should acquire to form part of society, but also to
    learn how to socialize. According to a study by Fight crime: invest in kids, 68% of people who
    are in jail don’t have a high school diploma and when numbers of graduates increased by 10%,
    murder and assault rates have decreased by a 20%. Another way in which these two are linked
    are that in 95% of the cases, as public defenders have so much work, they plead them guilty as
    they know they won’t be able to defend themselves. Lastly, it has been statistically proven that
    poorer areas are where the most drug deals occur. Education has been linked to lower
    addiction rates. Also, poor people have a lower chance into getting into recovery and drugs
    lead them to commit more crimes.

    In short, poverty causes diverse consequences such as crime, because of lack of education;
    diseases and conditions, and child poverty. Jim Yong Kim, ex-president of the World Bank has
    given us hope to solve poverty with positive words of encouragement, “Over the last 25 years,
    more than a billion people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty, and the global
    poverty rate is now lower that has ever been in recorded history. This is one of the greatest
    human achievements of our time.” However, as good as this news is, poverty is still existent
    and affects millions. Reaching gender equality, raising wages, providing good healthcare, clean
    water, personal hygiene, and food; and educating will extremely help solve poverty, an issue
    we should all fight for all.

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