Poverty in Philly

Poverty is an important problem in the city of Philadelphia. Poverty which is the lack of things we need daily such as food, clothing, shelter.These basic things determine the quality of life. As the years went by the poverty rate got higher which is a problem. More and more people from Philadelphia are losing their jobs.The loss of employment often leads to homelessness. While the homelessness rate is going up attention to the problem is decreasing. Students who drop out of school often loose their jobs in the future. As a consequence, they are likely to become victims of poverty.

One of the biggest reasons for the high rate of homelessness in the city of Philadelphia is the lack of jobs. With few open jobs people are hit hard by layoffs. With that comes violence. People who do not have jobs have too much free time on their hands. This is a bad thing to see in our city that has one of country's highest murder rates. Lack of jobs is a problem but at the root of it is the lack of education.

The lack of education is also an important reason for why our city has one of the highest poverty rates in the country . With the lack of educational growth of children who are growing up today they will have few skills in the future. The dropout rate is raising drastically and the grade to drop out is getting lower. Teachers can't teach their student,which is a problem. Most teachers are not willing to listen and that's what turns the students off topic and to other things.School dropouts are often poor because education is major in today's society . The lack of education is also related to the lack of jobs which is another cause of poverty.

In conclusion those topics that I shared about poverty are really the basics of poverty. Poverty is starting to be an epidemic in the United States which is not good. We need to try harder to keep our kids in school and have more job opportunity for our graduating student. But the poverty rate can go down if we have more hope for the future. Poverty is a lot to manage but we can do it with the help of our communities.