Domestic Policy Poverty

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Domestic PolicyPoverty

• Scott, Kolby, Ty

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Definition

• Poverty - The deprivation of common necessities
  that determine the quality of living, including
  food, clothing, shelter.
• You are labeled as being in poverty if you make
  an annual income of 18,850 or less.

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Social Programs

• Medicaid created in 1965 was established to help
  care for low income citizens.
• Food Stamp Program created in 1964 was brought in
  to help needy families based on income level.
• Social Security was made to help give assistance
  low income elderly citizens. It has also become
  the largest social program today.
• Programs like these are known as a safety net and
  are meant to help bring people out of poverty.

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Issues

• Poverty is an issue that is slowly growing upward
  
• It is estimated that three million people living
  in America are homeless
• Also that recent tax breaks are only seem to be
  benefiting the rich and making the gap between
  wealthy and poor bigger.

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Issues Continued

• Another thing seems to be that the rate of
  poverty is increasing is because of the slow rate
  of economic growth.
• Poverty is also such a big part of the American
  society that it takes up about fifty percent of
  the federal budget every year.

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Impact

• Because of the rising rate of poverty things like
  The New Deal were formed to help decrease the
  rate of poverty
• Medicaid, Social Security, and Food Stamps have
  helped bring people out of poverty over the
  years.
• These solutions might not have helped everyone
  come out of poverty but it still has helped
  others.

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Impact On Government Institutions

• Things like poverty take up half of the federal
  budget every year.
• The government also has pressure about citizens
  wanting them to fund faith-based charities. The
  government is viewed by some as hindering
  religious organizations that have set out to help
  the poor.

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Impacts Continued

• Yet also at the same time the government has
  pressure about spending taxpayers money on
  religious views that they might not always agree
  with.
• One other view is that economic growth might be
  one of the most important things in reducing
  poverty.

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Agree Or Disagree?

• I agree with them because they are something that
  the government has made to try and help push
  people out of poverty for what ever reason they
  are in that situation for.
• I also think that the programs like social
  security and Medicaid can help people even if
  they are considered poor because they were made
  to help them out of hard times and get people up
  and moving again.