Poverty is hunger. Poverty is homelessness. Poverty is not having a job. Poverty is not being able to get an education. Poverty has many different faces to many different people. It has been estimated that in 1998 1.2 billion people worldwide lived off one dollar per day and in 1999 2.8 billion people lived off two dollars per day. The amount of living money has increased, but the amount of people struggling has also increased. These statistics show that …
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…that teacher in a wealthy school district and her attitude toward everything would be different. He or she would feel that teaching was actually doing some good and therefore would perform his or her job better. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to obtain an education. A strong education brings poor people out of poverty; however, an inadequate education decreases your chance of getting a good job, which therefore causes you to remain in poverty.