Supplemental Articles
Topic of Poverty & Homelessness
What is “Boots Theory?” This theory was taken from a novel by Terry Pratchett wherein it discusses that the rich are rich, simply because they spend less money, but the manner in which they achieve that feat is done by making items that are cheap enough for the poor to purchase so much less durable that they actually end up having to spend more money for similar items over time.
Poverty in the U.S. increased in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the economy and unemployment soared. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder were hit hardest, new figures confirm, suggesting that the recession may have widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
Pandemic-era benefits may have helped drive poverty in 2021 lower than in 2020.
Where and when a person was born, their race, their education level and that of their parents, their age and health, the composition of their family, and the status of their relationship are all variables determining poverty status in the United States.
Although the country has made several improvements since the end of the war, 20 years later, Bosnia still struggles with poverty.
Twenty years since the Dayton Accords brought peace, Bosnia and Herzegovina still suffers from high poverty.
During the Bosnian War, a bloody conflict centered in the Bosnian capital city of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995 and thousands of citizens experienced immense hunger in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the conflict, recovery has been thwarted by low income and employment availability.
736 million people live in extreme poverty. About half of the world’s poor, around 368 million, live in just five countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Bangladesh. In developing regions, one in 10 people live on less than $1.90 a day. An estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation (more than 35 percent of the world’s population). One billion people live without electricity and hundreds of millions more live with unreliable or expensive power. Poverty reduction rates are expected to slow down over the next decade.
My descent into homelessness felt as though it happened in the blink of an eye. It was as if one moment I was standing in a meadow next to my horses, stroking their manes, and the next I was lying inside a plastic garbage bag on a park bench, wrapping clothes around my shivering body.
