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
 - but: globalization reduces poverty (Wikipedia contributors (2008) )
 - 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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