What Poverty IS:
•Generational poverty: poverty for two generations or longer (Payne, 1996)
•Situational poverty: Situational, shorter in time and caused by a circumstance (i.e. recent job loss) (Payne, 1996)
•POVERTY can be: "The extent to which an individual does without resources (financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, support systems, knolwedge of middle-class hidden rules, role models)" (Payne, 1996). A person who doesn't have their basic need fulfilled such as: food, housing, healthcare, childcare and education (Child Trends, 2009).
•Can be a frame of mind or set of values/norms - even if an individual has an increase in income, they still may continue holding the same values and norms as they had during the childhood poverty (Payne, 1996)
•The government defines poverty using a standard called the poverty line. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2009), the poverty line is as follows:
- Family of one: $10,830
- Family of two: $14,570
- Family of three: $18,310
- Family of four: $22,050 (NCCP, 2009)
•Despite the federal poverty line that has been set, most researcher agree that the national poverty lines are well below what people need to fulfill their basic needs. In fact, according to the NCCP (2009), families typically need twice the income in order to provide for basic needs.
MYTHS ABOUT POVERTY:
•Poverty is a minority issue - in fact, in 2006, 14% of Caucasian children lived in poverty (7,908,000 children) (Payne, 1996)
•Poor people have babies to get more welfare (the Welfare Mamas)
•Education is available and accessible to everyone. Everyone knows that education is the way out of poverty.
•Poverty is specific to urban populations. In fact, in 2005, the number of poor people living in suburbs became larger than the those living in cities by at least 1 million.
Links for more information:
http://www.nccp.org/
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
http://www.childtrends.org/
http://tlcprojects.org/NEAT/poverty1.html (Interactive Module on Poverty)
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:336998~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:336992,00.html
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty
•Link to Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty: (highly recommended!)
http://www.ahaprocess.com/store/Family_Framework.html
•Generational poverty: poverty for two generations or longer (Payne, 1996)
•Situational poverty: Situational, shorter in time and caused by a circumstance (i.e. recent job loss) (Payne, 1996)
•POVERTY can be: "The extent to which an individual does without resources (financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, support systems, knolwedge of middle-class hidden rules, role models)" (Payne, 1996). A person who doesn't have their basic need fulfilled such as: food, housing, healthcare, childcare and education (Child Trends, 2009).
•Can be a frame of mind or set of values/norms - even if an individual has an increase in income, they still may continue holding the same values and norms as they had during the childhood poverty (Payne, 1996)
•The government defines poverty using a standard called the poverty line. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2009), the poverty line is as follows:
- Family of one: $10,830
- Family of two: $14,570
- Family of three: $18,310
- Family of four: $22,050 (NCCP, 2009)
•Despite the federal poverty line that has been set, most researcher agree that the national poverty lines are well below what people need to fulfill their basic needs. In fact, according to the NCCP (2009), families typically need twice the income in order to provide for basic needs.
MYTHS ABOUT POVERTY:
•Poverty is a minority issue - in fact, in 2006, 14% of Caucasian children lived in poverty (7,908,000 children) (Payne, 1996)
•Poor people have babies to get more welfare (the Welfare Mamas)
•Education is available and accessible to everyone. Everyone knows that education is the way out of poverty.
•Poverty is specific to urban populations. In fact, in 2005, the number of poor people living in suburbs became larger than the those living in cities by at least 1 million.
Links for more information:
http://www.nccp.org/
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
http://www.childtrends.org/
http://tlcprojects.org/NEAT/poverty1.html (Interactive Module on Poverty)
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:336998~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:336992,00.html
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty
•Link to Payne's A Framework for Understanding Poverty: (highly recommended!)
http://www.ahaprocess.com/store/Family_Framework.html
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