Question

Explain one consequence that poverty brings. Offer concrete examples from the readings to back you up.

2) Watch the following TED TALK:http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html  In your own words explain what happens in a society when there is too much inequality between the wealthy and poor (such as our society.) Drawing from the Ted Talk, how can we fix poverty?

3) Research what is being done in your area to help the poor and homeless. (You can research your town, city, county, or state. Write about non-profits or governmental programs). If not enough is being done this is significant.

Answer 1

1. Explain one consequence that poverty brings.

Ans. One of the consequence of poverty is CRIME AND VICTIMIZATION. People who are poor or near poor constitute the bulk of our street crime - homicide, Bulgary, robbery an etc. Because poor people live in deep frustration and stress and also they live in a neighborhood full of crime, in such places children grow under older people who are already in some gangs or committing a various crime and they can be their heroes they can be their ideals from whom they are inspired and do the same thing

More than 2 million people in the nations prison jails come from near poor or poor families and poor background.

2) Watch the following TED TALK:http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html  In your own words explain what happens in a society when there is too much inequality between the wealthy and poor (such as our society.)

Answer - I watched the video and here are some of the important points discussed in it

• There is no relationship between life expectancy and Gross national income of a country, countries with twice the gross national income of a country have lower life expectancy ex-united states and Israel. But within the societies the poor have less life expectancy than the richer.
• The US is high on the index of health and the social problem even after being the richest because the inequality within the society is more in U.S
• Child well being is better in countries where there is more equality who are more equal within.
• People in more unequal countries trust each other less
• Homicide rates are higher in more unequal countries than the equal ones
• There are more children dropouts in unequal states withing U.s.
• social mobility is lower in more unequal countries.

3. Drawing from the Ted Talk, how can we fix poverty?

Some of the measures given in ted talk for dealing with this problem are:-

• Increase company democracy employee ownership etc
• promote more directors from within the company
• stop tax avoidance
• end tax heavens
• make taxation progressive again
• making bosses accountable to the employees