poor peple final essay

Christian E Rangel Flores Ms. Williams English 1A Section 012 22 December 2013 Poor people Did you know that poverty is a serious, real issue in our society? I’m not surprised if you didn’t know that because poverty is hitting this problem for too long. However, there are a lot of stereotypes about the poor people in this country that need to be debunked before any changes can be made. It is so easy for us to see how people can get out of poverty. It generally is easier to see the big picture when you are outside the box, looking in. The list goes on and on but people don’t really quite know the problems for each person who is poor, instead of helping them they rather criticize. The solutions that I suggest to stop the stereotypes and to help the poor people to get out of poverty are to have the same opportunity as a wealthy person, education support, and proving health insurance. If you work hard enough you can get out. Many times when a person gets to have the opportunity to talk with a person who has accomplished many things in his life and has succeeded, these people always say that if you work hard enough you can get out. This myth really bothers many people who are in poverty work really hard and they do not make any progress and their vector out of poverty and it takes a lot of resources and a lot of help to get out of poverty. When other people say that one person got out of poverty because they worked really hard at it there setting, they are not looking at the whole story because nine times out of ten that person did not get out of poverty simple because they worked really hard, they got out of poverty because they worked really hard and they had made the connections and the network to get out of poverty, and also had opportunities than other people did not. This sets a president that makes other people feel like their failing if they are working hard but not getting out of poverty. The book, The rich and the rest of us, mentions, “Jacks story underscores the extreme lack of opportunity in America” (43). This shows how bad America is lacking on giving opportunities, many people are not lazy they are hard workers and they are still in poverty. America should give the same opportunity to everyone so they can succeed, this is why it is keeping us down because people work really hard and there is no way out of poverty, and makes people feel like they are useless, this shouldn’t be happening of the people who wants to have a better life. Everyone knows that education is the way out of poverty. This is true, but you only hear it from the wealthy people and not from the poor. Of course education is not available and accessible to everyone. Many children are not eligible for head start programs. For those of us who don’t live in poverty, it is easy to fit into schools. However, for those living in poverty, it is difficult to fit in. When every moment of everyday is devoted to finding ways to survive, school can be seen as one more thing keeping you from doing what you need to do to survive. If a single parent is desperately trying to make sure there is food on the table for dinner, money to pay rent, and working to keep the electricity from being turned off, this doesn’t mean the parent doesn’t support their children’s education. It is simply means that making ends meet. Education is a fundamental human right and vital to achieving economic growth, increasing income, and sustaining a healthy society. Education is important in helping to improve lives, break the cycle of poverty and ensure that all people are living a stable life that they have access to all the necessary things. There are many reasons why many kids do not attend school, the main reason why is because they are poor and are not provided with financial help. The book, The rich and the rest of us, mentions, “Under-funded, and poorly staffed educational institutions. While rich rids go off to college. Americas poor children drop out of school, wind up in the nationals jails or prisons, or are destined to live the lives of the working poor- or worst” (53). This explains that the only way that a person can succeed in life is by being wealthy because they have the chance to stay educated and attend college. In the other hand the poor people, the doors are shut for them and they do not have any chances. I suggest that the poor people should have the same opportunity to attend a high education and contribute with their work to this country, and this is why the poor people should be provided with educational help. Access to comprehensive, quality health care service is important for the achievement of health equity and for increasing the quality of a healthy life for everyone. When you see homeless people, they are smelly, dirty, and with old clothes. Many times when wealthy people see them like that, they do not want to get near them because they think that this poor people are contagious and they make them see like they are nothing and worthless. The government waist more money on other things than health and it also makes this country look bad compared to other countries where they have free health insurance. This makes us look like we do not care about people but do care about the money. Access to health services means the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes. Poor people need entry into the health care system, accessing a health care location where needed services are provided. The reason why poor people need this is because it prevents of diseases and disability, detection and treatment of health conditions, preventable death. Disparities in access to health services affect individuals and society. Limited access to health care impacts people’s ability to reach their full potential, negatively affecting their quality of life. Barriers to services include lack of availability, high cost, lack of insurance coverage. These barriers to accessing health services lead to unmet health needs, inability to get preventive services, and hospitalizations that could have been preventive services, and hospitalizations that could have been prevented. The book, The rich and the rest of us, mentions, “The money couldn’t possibly go toward things like transportation to and from work, medicine, insurance, and other priorities” (85). This means that the money is not going to any of the important problems like health. This is also why many people are in poverty because families cannot afford on paying high bills to receive insurance and this brings us down because when a person who does not have insurance and the day that the person goes in to the emergency room it increases the chances on that person to get out of poverty because now he has a huge bill that they need to pay for the visit of the doctor. The list of stereotypes for the poor people will go on and on and their will not be an end of it. The stereotypes you only hear them from the people who are not in the situation as the poor people are. The wealthy people do not have a clue on what’s going on their heads of all this poor people, they instead are criticizing because that’s the only thing that they are good at. When a wealthy people see the poor people they only see a hole and they know that something is wrong but they don’t know exactly what is going on, but if they start to dig deeper and deeper than they will never finish on digging the hole because there are so many problems in those people life’s. The solutions that I suggest to help the poor people to get out of poverty are to have the same opportunity for them to achieve their goals and succeed in life. I think that this is what this county needs; we need to see that this country is helping people to overcome their problems and to help them to get out of poverty. Other solution that I suggest is help the poor people with education because many people say that we don’t need education no more but in fact we do need it desperately because who is going to be able to the taxes to get the nation going? People who are living in poverty if they don’t get a good education, if they are unable to go to college, and then they can’t get good jobs. We are in trouble. Many kids are falling at a very young age where they start to go the wrong path, and these individuals are extremely intelligent, very bright, but unfortunately the help gets them down when they were trying to get through the system as students. The last solution that I suggest is to help the poor people with medical insurance so that these people can be healthy and will also help this country economically because there will be less people going into the emergency rooms. I believe that with this solutions that I suggested the poor people will have a hope on getting out of poverty, and have greater chances.