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Category: Society & Politics
Tags: poverty, governments
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  Support:
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Points:
Poverty is a condition that all governments must address.  
  • because: poverty can lead to social unrest  

  • but: it is every citizen's responsibility to work hard to lift themselves out of poverty  

    • but: people may lack the skills and knowledge to move ahead  

  • because: poverty causes disease (Wikipedia contributors (2008) ) 

    • because: the poor often live and work in dirty places (Wikipedia contributors (2008) ) 

    • because: the poor cannot afford enough healthy food (Wikipedia contributors (2008) ) 

      • because: food prices have surged to an all-time high (The Economist (2008) p.11) 

    • because: the poor cannot afford medicine  

  • because: many countries have welfare programmes already  

  • because: the most needy in society cannot fight poverty on their own  

    • because: they do not have the resources to break the cycle  

  • because: some people end up in poverty through no fault of their own  

    • because: some corrupt governments keep all the wealth to themselves rather than share it  

      • because: examples are those in N. Korea and in some African countries  

    • because: in times of war, families may lose their entire fortunes  

  • because: the poor have become poorer in a global economy  -64.52%

    • but: globalization reduces poverty (Wikipedia contributors (2008) ) +64.52%

      • but: it does so for some, not everybody  

    • because: the global financial crisis has had a drastic impact on the world's poorest (7, International Section) 

    • because: they cannot face the stiff competition that comes with globalization  


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