Overcoming Poverty: Potential Solutions

Overcoming Poverty: Potential Solutions
There is no single description of poverty. But for many, perhaps most, it means homes with inadequate heating, unstable plumbing, and uncertain electricity. It often means a home where some go to bed hungry and malnutrition is very frequent. For almost all the poverty stricken families it means that life is a constant struggle to obtain the merest necessities of existence, the things that most of us take for granted. Financial aid and government assistance programs have been set up in hopes of alleviating this growing problem. However, financial…