Essays on Poverty Page 10

Homelessness has been around forever but often looked over as something that isn’t a big deal, but why is the public just now becoming more informed in recent years? Looked at in great depth within homelessness in America, the focus is on individual adults. Among people experiencing homelessness in our country, society knows that most…

All around the world people are experiencing homelessness. Being homeless is not having a primary residence or more say a roof over one’s head. He or she may be living in shelters, going couch to couch at a friends, living out of one’s car, or simply just not having a permanent situation. Homelessness is a…

Introduction There have been numerous studies that have recorded an increase in the United States homeless population between 2015 and 2018. The largest portion of this population has been documented as homeless veterans. The United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) defines homelessness as an individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate…

Secure housing is out of reach for many Minnesotans. African Americans, American Indians, veteran, children and youth age 24 and younger and youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) are particularly over-represented among the homeless population. Minnesota is facing a housing crisis. Home prices increased 8.9% from 2017 to 2018 alone with homes…

Through January of 2019, the national unemployment rate rose to 4.0% and it is the leading cause of homelessness. Causes of unemployment include job outsourcing, advances in technology, and demand-deficient unemployment. Job outsourcing entails producers to employ workers from other countries with lower costs of living which causes American workers to lose their jobs. Advances…

Homelessness has been around forever but often looked over as something that isn’t a big issue, but why is the public just now becoming more informed in recent years? We are being informed more and more about it because the population is becoming larger and larger. However, we often neglect the severity of homelessness. On…

Homelessness is a growing social injustice in the United States. The degradation that these people face every day is terrifying. It is a crisis that we too often ignore, hoping it will restore itself. That assumption delivers a widespread lack of understanding about the facts that lead to homelessness. Homelessness exists as a problem that…

Imagine this: you have just served five years in the military. You listened to your superiors, you always worked hard, and you fought bravely in protection of your country. While you were overseas, you were faced with many hard days. You worked yourself to the brink of exhaustion and then continued to work even more….

According to Edward J. Martin, one of the leading causes of homelessness, in the United States, is the result of chronic mental health disorders which can cause severe mental illness in people (p.67). This is a huge factor of homelessness because the sufferer may not even know how to begin to help themselves. Additionally, those…

We’ve all seen them. They spread in groups on the sidewalks outside New Orleans’ downtown businesses, maybe with a dog curled on side of them. Their tattoos and piercings make them look aggressive, and their baggy clothing makes them appear bigger than they really are. Smoking, drinking, conversing amongst one another and refusing to make…