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Problems With The Poverty Threshold

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When looking at the gross yearly income that determines the poverty level, which is at about $31,800 for a four-person family (as of 2006), I think to myself ‘How can all of these people be living in such low standards?’ Well obviously they do not have a choice! I mean most of the people in poverty live in dirty places that are screaming with disease and they cannot afford to eat healthy food because the last thing on their mind is, ‘Do I have enough money to eat healthy food?’ but are rather thinking, ‘Will we get by this month, or even this week?’ After doing a little research of my own, my main concern makes me question why the poverty threshold cannot be raised in order to provide a better means of living so these people could possibly afford a healthy diet and even a better standard of living...
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If only our society could come up with a better means to create a healthy diet plan, decrease the risk of health problems and disease among impoverished communities, create better standards for living arrangements in these communities, and move on from the old paradigm way of thinking into the new paradigm way of acting we could possibly avoid further impoverishment and end up raising the poverty threshold in order to assist in the accomplishment of these important goals...
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