Jobs and Poverty
Poverty is defined as having a "standard of living below the minimum needed for the maintenance of adequate diet, health, and shelter." With this definition the answer to ending poverty might seem easy. Just create enough jobs so that people are over the poverty line. If we lived in a simple world that might work, but there are many circumstances that will prove that the theory of just creating jobs will not work.Barclay, in his article talks about how he can not keep employees because of the fact they do not have good work ethics, the ability to handle life stresses, or the want to stay clean. He states that he can train them to do a job, but can not make them show up for work, be there on time, or to be clean. With this example just the creation of jobs will not work. Also, if we look at if the world as if it had enough jobs, and the employees showed up on time, would this eliminate poverty? If a person is making minimum wage working 40 hours a week, they will only make $210 a week before taxes are taken out. This works out to be just under $11,000 a year. These numbers are under the minimum requirement for a family of three. Now if the family was made up of two adults, theoretically both adults could work, bringing their
Also if a person works for minimum wage, they will still be below the poverty line. Raising the minimum wage rate seems like a simple solution, but what about the fact that some people are just working part time for extra cash, should they also reap the benefits of a higher wage. So we develop a system to do a minimum wage for part time employees and full time employees. This too seems like a simple solution, but with the way employers are now opening more and more part time positions and less full time positions to avoid the cost of benefits for employees we again hit a brick wall in the solution. So how do we really eliminate poverty? I do not think that there is a solution to poverty, but the government can intervene to control and aid people who fall below the poverty line. This is not the answer most people want, but is not controlled poverty better then uncontrolled? So for now we have to have faith in our government to continue reforming social welfare to benefit the victims of poverty to help them stand up and get out of the position there are in. I do believe people have the capability of getting out of poverty with hard work and assistance. So just because it will never be eliminated as a
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