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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1168 words (4.67 pages) in the essay titled Homelessness1 Homelessness is a growing problem in the United States. Countless people wonder the streets, sleep in boxes, and wonder where their next meal will come from. As a sociologist working on the Nation Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), I would address four main concerns: the links between poverty and the homelessness, links between unemployment and homelessness, lack of governmental support for the homeless, and lack of affordable, and satisfactory housing for the homeless.Poverty and homelessness are go hand in hand. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines poverty as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Those who live in poverty are often unable to pay for basic needs: housing, food, childcare, healthcare, and education. If those living in poverty can chose to live in a house, or one of the above needs, they usually chose homelessness. There are also those where a serious illness will throw them into poverty, and for those the unavoidable chose is homelessness. Those who are employed and in poverty, live from paycheck to paycheck, and missing a paycheck, or losing a job can leave them to live on the streets. As a sociologist I would wonder why the number of those who are poor has not increased recently, the poverty level has. People in poverty are living with less and less money. From 1995-1997 the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased by 500,000, with 41% of poor people living with an... |
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