Measures being taken to eliminate poverty.

In the United States the government states there are a lot of programs and measures being taken to eliminate poverty each day. Some of them are:

-The NY times article in which mayor Bloomberg has pledged to put about 150 million dollars in anti-poverty programs for the city of New York through public and private money. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/30poverty.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)

-There are also many federal programs such as welfare, food stamps, homeless shelters etc. throughout the country.


I also believe countries with higher or similar resources would have similar programs, but countries with lesser resources would have a hard time funding these programs due to a lack of government funding as well as the private sector pumping any resources in.

From my experience in India, I have never heard of programs such as food stamps, state funded shelters as well as medicaid.

Session 4

Reading this session gave me more insight about the government programs and educational programs offered in the "ghetto" and the poverty stricken areas. The education is something that needs to be very much stressed in these areas. Even the quality of education needs to be up to par and not half-assed. There should be government funded child care programs which create jobs in these areas and also help single parents manage their working schedule. There should be also government run courses to help educate people on birth control and budgeting their finances. Apparently in the session 3 video "Down and out in America", the family towards the end of the video who were poor and got their apartment burnt down, they had 4 kids. There are families who have low income, but still tend to reproduce more kids without thinking twice of the consequences to their budget and expenses. This can all be achievable if the government allocated less resources towards foreign policy and more towards domestic progression.