A single individual can’t change world poverty, but if many people work together they have a shot. There are many support groups out there that are trying to abolish global poverty. Groups like the Center for Global Development. You can contact them by clicking here and clicking in the “contact us” link in the upper right hand corner. This group can give you information on how to deal with global poverty and how to help.
A big thing people can do is to contact Congressmen and senators who are pushing for global poverty bills. Congressmen like Adam Smith, the Washington Post wrote, “U.S. Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) took steps this week to require the President of the United States to create a strategy to combat extreme poverty and to report to Congress on his progress. Smith reintroduced his Global Poverty Act, H.R. 1302, late yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives.” If you want to contact congressman Smith you can click here and fill out the forms to write him and email for questions and concerns.
If the world continues to go on like this then we will soon have two very different classes. a very rich and wealthy class and a very poor class. The growing global economy is leaving more than 1 billion people behind. Congressman Smith comments on poverty in an interview with the Washington Post “Poverty grips nearly half of the world’s population, and 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty, meaning they scrape by on less than a dollar a day.” Obviously the current minimum wages in the major economic powers of the world are not cutting it. There needs to be a raise in minimum wage or economic reforms in world trade, so we don’t end up leaving the poor further behind.
3 comments:
i dont know if its possible to eliminate global poverty. but i guess that doesnt mean you shouldnt try.
i think its all the rich peoples faults. theyre always trying to find ways to keep there money and make more, while poor people are just trying to find ways to have it. i think we should invest money into programs that teach proverty awareness, and not only awareness, but trying to persaude on giving to them. like, the higher your income, the more hours you must spend at "William's rehab for rich people" and i can open up my own program and make money. shoots.
I really see this concern of minimum wage as a huge problem that can only be changed by the continued letters and protests of workers. I feel that the government doesn’t understand what it is like to live on minimum wage. Especially in today’s ever rising inflation rates, without minimum wages adjusting to these rates, it is hard to survive in society. Many minimum wage workers are people who have lived unfortunate lives from birth and therefore couldn’t attend college and get higher degrees of learning. This trend will simply continue throughout a family if something isn’t done.
-kelly
I'm all for reducing poverty rates. But how is the US gonna tackel world poverty when we can't even eliminate or reduce poverty in our own country?
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