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The Cause and Effect of Poverty

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The Cause and Effect of Poverty

Poverty exists all over the world, regardless it’s a rich country or like some country in Africa. Even United States of America richest country in the world, faces serious problems with poverty. The cause and effect of poverty can be lay to different processes. The measure cause of poverty is lack of money, but it is not the only cause or effect. However, the purpose of this essay is to discuss some of the main causes and effects of poverty, which are education, wars, hunger, and natural disasters.

The first and immediate cause of poverty is lack of education. In my point of view lack of education keeps children from obtaining jobs that would lift them and their families out of poverty. Nowadays, education is the key to have a life you want because without education it is not possible to find better job or tohave a decent life. If you don’t have a better job, how can you succeed in life.

The second cause of poverty has to do with wars. Many poor countries are poor because they are constantly fighting wars. Wars cost millions and billions dollar into weapons, uniforms, food, manpower, etc. This is usually money that could go citizens or programs but instead those funds are use into wars. Example: the war of Iraq cause so many things, such as economic crisis, lost of job, people lost their homes, and the worse part it cause was hunger. Women and children were suffering from hunger.

The first effect of poverty is hunger. One of the most obvious effect of poverty is hunger. Many children around the world are suffering right now for

hunger, because their parents’ don’t have money to buy food for them. Being poor effect many things in someone life. Another result of poverty, is an

inadequate education . Imagine parents aren’t able to pay their children college fees, or send their children at school, not able to buy clothes for them.

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