Poverty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SutshaFS3lk
This is a link to a Youtube video that talks about poverty. Normally when people hear poverty, they automically assume that they are talking about people in the third world countries or the developoing countries. For example "Africa" even though Africa is just a continet and not a country.  In this video, it talks about poverty in America. The video states that over thirty-seven million people live in poverty. It also states that the number of people living in poverty has increased since the year 2000. It says that it has increase by almost 6 million since that year. It says that 13 million children live in poverty in the United States of America. Which is a lot of people! 9.7 percent of the elderly lives in poverty according to the 2008 census.5 million people lived below the poverty line in the year 2007. Many people have become poor not because they are too lazy to work or find a job. The reason is because some of the people have experienced some natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, toenadoes etc. One perfect example will be just recently when hurricane Sandy hit. Many individuals lots their homes, cars etc. They ended up living in shelters. Does that mean that they were laxy to work? Of course not! It will be difficult for these individuals that were greatly affected by Sandy to get back on their feets.Somewill even take a couple of years to recovery and then everything will be back to normal. We shouldn't just assume or imagine that people do not want to work or anything of that sort but rather we should help them in their journey to recovery!