Responsibility Of Poverty in The United States

While people can be born into poverty, there are ways people drift into poverty. There are five different aspects which can equal poverty, which I will explain in this essay. This analysis was taken in 2005, which revealed that thirty-seven million individuals, in 12.6 percent of the society, were shown to be poor. However, in 1960, poverty was up to twenty-two percent. Although, however, it managed to get decreased down to an estimated percentage of 12 by the mid-1970's. Later on, the statistics varied throughout the years.


The first aspect of drifting into poverty is age. Children have a high chance living in poverty, and are thirty-five percent  of United States' more poor population. An analysis taken in 2005 exposed thirteen million young people that were younger than eighteen were living in houses with income. Even to a extremely fatal level, nearly half of this age range reside in families that produce an income that's not even half of the standard poverty income, which is nine-thousand dollars or less. From the previous generation, the elderly had a higher population of poor income people, but poverty has a different trait today.


The second aspect is race. The majority of people in the United States stereotype African American or Hispanics as being poor. The truth however, is that white people are more poor as opposed to black people who are poor. There is also a higher amount of non-Hispanic as opposed to Hispanic people living in poverty, but the truth us that the percentage of minorities that are in Poverty is larger than white people. African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans have a higher chance of being poor than white people.


The third aspect of poverty is Gender. Women have a higher chance of drifting into poverty, which is 61 percent of all poor adults in the United States, while men are the remaining 39 percent. Due to the large amount of poverty distance between men and women, sociologists have established the phrase "feminization of poverty". From an analysis in 1960, it was discovered that married couples had a chance of drifting into poverty.  The difference in today than 1960 is that single mothers children with an absent husband are 53 percent of the poor population, while single men take up only nine percent. The fourth aspect is Family Pattern. When individuals are married, income increases by a large degree and reduces the chances of being poor.

5.1 percent of married people are in poverty, as opposed to 17.9 percent of single men, and then 24.1 of single women. The last and fifth aspect is Region. The authentic percentage of poverty changes from state to state. The Poverty percentage in new Hampshire is 5.6 percent, 6.8 in New Jersey, a large percentage of 21.3 in the District of Columbia and 20.1 percent in Mississippi. The southern and western have a higher amount of poverty, along with the midwest and northeast.  While people associate poverty with urban environments, the truth is that rural environments are at risk of poverty more so than urban environments.


To conclude this essay, I will say that poverty is harmful to our society in more ways than one. Therefore, a change must be made.