SO why should anybody care about poverty? what interests you in this problem? What would happen if nobody cared and what makes you want to help out?? THinK! IT's GOOD FOR THE SOUL!

Job hunting is simple as it can get. But a job doesn't solve much, as impoverished are faced with other troubles in their communities.

Maybe we could better help the poor by helping them find better jobs, improving their education, etc.

I agree we should help them...find jobs

I'm sorry... but "thought provoking" questions really piss me off. Don't ask a question if you already know the answer. They do that way to often in school, don't presume you're smarter then the rest of us. idk... it just pisses me off. Whatevs, continue the fourm. I will just be pissed about it

Because, like it or not, your surroundings affect you and you have an impact on them as well.

Why should people care about other people's hardships? Because we'd like to be good friends and have be a positive influence on someone, and hope that our kidness will be returned. And why not? It's much easier to care and help than to just look the other way (in the long-run).

The Impovershed need to get off their collective ass and get jobs like the rest of society they want stuff? they can make money and buy it like everyone else

We should care because poverty affects everyone. The impoverished just have enough money to buy the basics. Therefore they aren't buying other things and those that they aren't buying from aren't getting money from them. So in the big picture poverty doesn't just affect the poor it affects all people.

Being a school teacher my dad has always been poor. We were one of those families that barely scraped by month to month. I wore hand me downs and when times were really bad we'd just eat soup, malt meal and reduced lucnhes or peanutbutter and jelly from home to save money. When I first moved to a new place I was almost homeless. For a month we lived out of the back of our van and woould move from campground to camgpground. Believe me its scary not knowing where you'll spend the night. Eventually my dad got a job as a teacher and now we live in a small home. Thats' why you should care about poverty.

we should care because you can be loaded with $$$$$$ and suddenly get sick or loose your business or whatever and get broke.

no one ever knows how their $$$ will be in the future. and no one places themselvs in poverty.

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we shouldnt care because they put themselves in that position

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It's not that simple. What if you lost your job and your house burned down? What if you developed schizophrenia? What if somebody murdered your family or was beating you up every single day or you had been severely traumatized by something and you developed severe depression or anxiety and started using drugs to help to dull the pain? What if you were bored and you made a mistake or a bad choice, like all people do sometimes, and ended up in this horrible cycle of addiction that kept you on the street?

It's not easy to get off the street, it's not easy to fight addictions or mental illness.

It's not like you can just walk into a business without an address or a penny to your name and get a job, and that's assuming that you're in a state to work in the first place. You can't even get welfare if you don't have an address.

And what if you were so out of it that you didn't even have a handle on reality? It's your fault that your brain isn't functioning? Despite popular belief, people who have severe psychosis etc aren't rounded up and shoved into hospitals; usually they're ignored.

How do you think you can go to work or school and function everyday when you're constantly fighting just to keep yourself from freezing to death, starving, being robbed or assaulted or dying from malnutrition, illness (you get sick a lot if you live on the street) or the aforementioned assault-all of those things are real threats if you're living on the street.

What if you're a single parent with kids you need to look after, you lose your job and while you're trying to find another one the government doesn't pay you enough to keep your home, let alone feed your kids, make sure they're cared for, or pay for transportation and the resources to make resumes and stuff so you can become re-employed or better employed? What if the only job you have doesn't pay you enough to live on but you have no chance of getting a better one because you can't afford to go to school, nor do you have the time?

And what happens if you're born into poverty? Is that your fault? What if it's all you've ever known and for whatever reason (say you had to drop out of school and work to help your impoverished parents or to feed yourself, or maybe you weren't doing well in school because your life was so chaotic and messed up) you've never had an opportunity to break free of it?

If the path that people take leads them to become poor, possibly living on the streets, then a lot of things have happened on that path to get them there. Even if it's a lot of the same thing like shooting heroin. And it's likely some pretty messed up stuff, stuff that you can't just shrug off and say "oh, well, I won't have anything to do with that anymore. Okay, it's done and gone now, no longer affects me, no longer a problem." Stuff like addiction, depression, mental illness, abuse and systemic oppression.

A few years ago, I never would have thought I'd be even close to living on the street. Then waddya know, two months ago I'm cold and sick and sleeping on my friend's front lawn because I'm not safe at home, the government won't help me and I have no where else to go. If I hadn't accidentally ended up at a safehouse I'm absolutely positive I would've become an addict downtown and/or died. It's harsh and complicated; People don't just choose between poverty or subsistance like they might choose which chocolate bar to buy at the corner store.

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I hope you end up on the street and are forced to wear a big sign that says "I'm Cowgirl3290" so that people know not to give money to you.

poverty is not inevitable. it is the biggest cause of disease, conflict, racism, and just about every threat to life, peace and happiness. when governments start dealing with poverty as a cause instead of just superficial symptoms then we might be in a better position as a planet. i oppose poverty as a threat to humanity.

we shouldnt care because they put themselves in that position

we should care because that could be us

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SO why should anybody care about poverty? what interests you in this problem?

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as simple as ,
u are a human being with presumably human feelings ?????

cuz if nobody cared, life wud be meaning less...

all of us wud probably be in torture chambers or sumthing..

and caring for other people is a good investment..

but maybe caring for people rather than u wud be a good investment...

Poverty happens.

Because it could be me or you. Because some people have compassion for other's suffering.

You should care because you have a conscience. Yes, some people deserve poverty and abuse the system and don't even try to improve their lives. I know, I work at a local food pantry and see these worthless people all the time. But then there are the people who are disabled, have been layed off, or simply can't keep up with the bills and can't feed their kids. Millions of people are loosing their jobs under our government and are unable to find new jobs. These people are sometimes educated and really try for a good life but just can't get a job. Kids are suffering because of poverty and they definatly weren't intentionally lazy and not trying to find work to end up not having any money.

i care simply bcause i know people are suffering out there. i believe everyone should have an equal chance in life to become successful and live like they want to. Poverty affects the way people see a country, a city, a neighborhood, a family, a person. Why do you care?