blog 11: global issue

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty

This article is talking about how poverty is a global issue and is happening everywhere, some places more than others. Poverty is a serious thing and can cause illness and death. "Over 3 billion people are living on less than $2.50 a day" To most of us here $2.50 is nothing but to some people that is a chance to survive for one more day. "1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day)." Some children are dying because they do not have enough money for food for that day or they are sick because they do not have a warm, safe, or clean place to live. Most children who start in poverty usually never make it out of poverty. People who are living in poverty have a hard time getting jobs because people do not hire homeless people and then they do not get money for food and shelter.