Illiterate individuals cannot make educated decision, vote intelligently, or make other decisions in an educated fashion. Kozol believes illiteracy is the cause of poverty. Most poverty stricken people are illiterate which is where the author gets his point. Poverty usually runs back generations in the afflicted areas. It is the cool thing to do even though it roots back to poverty itself. Instead curse words and vulgar language is put in place of a proper vocabulary. As most people know the younger population does not use proper English. Here in the United States we see an entirely different problem being lack or misuse of education. This means that gaining an education is extremely difficult unless you are a part of a wealthy family or have access to money. Most foreign countries do not have an organized educational system like the United States. Most illiterate people are not at fault for this because it extends further than their lifetime. In the modern work place almost no job can be properly executed or performed with the utilization of reading and writing. Kozol illustrates what he believes to be the causes of poverty, of which being illiteracy. The ability to read and write can vastly effect the outcome of your future life. In the first article by author Jonathan Kozol he writes of the consequences of an illiterate society. Even I did not know until reading a few in depth articles describing the causes and ways to prevent it. We all deal with missed payments but majority don’t know the extreme impact poverty has. Not many of us know the true effects of poverty on our country or any country for that matter. We seem to judge the actions of the rich rather than deal with the issue of the poor. Majority of us as citizens live within the middle class, which is in between poor and rich. Without proper education the people are left to make blind decisions with no judgment at any level. Our educational system has fallen below top ten in the world leaving us behind the pack. The reason it is increasing is because we do not take actions on the lesser fortunate surrounding us. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” Poverty is caused by our own actions. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. One quote by mother Teresa in my opinion sums up the cause in saying, “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. There has been massive debates over what is causing the increase. Poverty is defined as the state of being poor. The recession has caused an increase in poverty. A recession is not as severe as a depression but still has massive impacts on all defined by it.
Most people learn in school the destruction caused by the depression in the 1930’s but currently we are in the midst of a recession. Poverty Final Draft In the current financial state of the world we as individuals hear the word poverty quite often.
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