Cuyamaca College Introduction to Poverty in United States Research Paper the footnotes do not have the right information at the bottom fo each page. You need to add quotation marks to any of the direct quotes in here. As is, you are presenting each fact as your own words, but if anything in here is directly quotes (at least 3 words in a row), you need to use quotation marks. With footnotes, it will look like this. “Fact.” 1 Alwakeel 1
POVERTY IN THE US
Mission
Introduction to poverty in United States
Poverty in US
Poverty is one of the various social issues affecting a large number of Americans. People living in poverty lack
enough income and other material items to help in meeting their needs 1.
Inability to feed themselves is an indicator of poverty among the Americans. Other challenges people living in
poverty experience lack of a shelter, and inability to purchase clothes to match the weather. Inconsistences in
inability to feed oneself is also an indicator of poverty. Povertyusa.org (2020)
IDEAS ON POVERTY
ERADICATION
Facts about poverty
? In every 4 workers, the
wage of one is below the
minimum wage. Segma
(2017) 2
? In every seven Americans,
one survives on food
stamps. Parolin (2019) 3
? At least 50% of all children
in the US are on food
stamps once before they are
18. Dreyer (2016)4
? At least 18% of all
Americans major expense is
housing. Segma (2017) 5
? Single mother led
households are more likely
to be affected by poverty by
32%. Dreyer (2016) 6
? One in every six senior
adults is living below the
poverty line. Parolin
(2019)7
DATA ON POVERTY IN US
?
Poverty rate in the US in 2018 was at
11.8% and it represents some one of the
lowest rate in the past 2 decades.US Census
Bureau (2020)
1
Lower the unemployment index in the US.
Raise
the
minimum
wage
to
disposable income among the members of the
population.
Increase
educations
access
across
all
populations especially the minorities.
Tax tariffs reliefs based on incomes based on
income.
OPINION ON POVERTY
Extended Campuses
Focus on the American dream to
motivate more people to work.
Enhancing human capital through
technical skills.
Increase
resources
and
consequently increase incomes.
?
?
Poverty rate declined by 3% between
reduced by 1.4 in 2018. Bureau
2014 and 2018. Bureau (2020) 9
(2020)10
?
The changes in percentages mean
Poverty rate in the US varies across races
there were at least 38 million people
with Native American being affected the
living in poverty in 2014 and had
most and Asians the least. 11
8
For more information on poverty, see Povertyusa.org (2020).
For more information on minimum wage, see Semega (2017).
3
See Parolin (2019), for more information on food stamps.
4
For more information on child poverty, see Dreyer (2016).
5
See Semega (2017), for more information on Americans major expenses.
6
See Dreyer (2016), for more information on single mothers.
7
For more information on senior adults, see Parolin (2019).
8
For more information on poverty rate in the US, see US Census Bureau (2020).
2
increase
9
See Bureau (2020), for more
information.
10
See Bureau (2020), for more poverty
rate information.
11
For more facts on poverty, see
povertyusa.org (2020).
Alwakeel 2
?
14% of the US population earnings are
below the minimum wage.12
CONCEPTS TO ADDRESS
Athletics
POVERTY
Create more jobs to reduce unemployment level.
Provide paid sick and leave days for the population
especially those living below minimum wage.
Invest high standards of education for all to increate
literacy.
Medicaid expansion to reduce healthcare cost
burden to many.
Raise the minimum wage to increase disposable
income among members of population.
Address pay equity between races and genders.
12
For more information on minimum
wage, see povertyusa.org (2020).
Alwakeel 3
Bibliography
Bureau, US. 2020. “Income And Poverty In The United States: 2018”. The United States Census
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11.8%20percent.
Dreyer, Benard, Paul J. Chung, Peter Szilagyi, and Shale Wong. “Child poverty in the United
States today: introduction and executive summary.” Academic Pediatrics 16, no. 3
(2016): S1-S5.
Parolin, Zachary. “The effect of benefit underreporting on estimates of poverty in the United
States.” Social Indicators Research 144, no. 2 (2019): 869-898.
Povertyusa.org. 2020. Poverty Facts. [online] Available at: https://www.povertyusa.org/facts
[Accessed 10 July 2020].
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