“Poverty is
when the money that you need isn’t there, and you have to make choices that
compromise your health or your future or your ability to care for you family.” The
final section of “The American Way of Poverty” was all about breaking the cycle
of poverty that our society has been going through. Abramsky discusses ideas
and solutions that he believes will end poverty permanently. He begins the
chapter by saying that by simply improving a dysfunctional welfare system
might, however, be the easiest part of the anti-poverty equation. He states
that being both relatively affordable and also building mainly on existing
institutions and programs will help this a great deal. He discusses issues with
the criminal justice systems, childhood development account program (CDA), and
even hospital visits. He believes that many countries already have related
programs such as these, and function properly. I enjoyed the third section the
most because it was very easy to follow along with, and talked about the things
that we need to do to possibly end poverty once and for all.
Test question:
What does CDA stand for, and what is it all about?
No comments:
Post a Comment