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What is poverty?
Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. Poverty means that the income level from employment is so low that basic human needs can not be met. Poverty stricken people and families might go without proper housing, clean water, healthy food, and medical attention. Each nation may have its own threshold that determines how many of its people are living in poverty. (Chen 2020)
The ways the government has attempted to address poverty.
According to, Vallas and Boteach ( 2014) ¨the good news is that different policy choices can bring different outcome¨. When the government invests in jobs and policies to increase workers' wages and families' economic security, children and families see improved outcomes in both the short and long term. 1.Means-tested welfare benefits - to the poorest in society for example unemployment benefit, food stamps, income support and housing benefit. 2.Minimum wages - Regulation of labour markets, for example, statutory minimum wages. 3. Free market policies to promote economic growth - hoping that rising living standards will filter down to the poorest in society. 4. Direct provision of goods/services - subsided housing, free education and healthcare.
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