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    Poverty negatively impacts individuals, families, and society through poor healthcare, limited job and education opportunities, and increased crime rates. To address this, investments should be made in education, job training, social services, housing, and addressing inequalities. Poverty also affects children by providing less opportunities in school like class trips and advanced courses. Equal opportunities and resources in schools could help decrease these negative effects. Deficiency theory claims people are in poverty due to a lack of characteristics needed to succeed, but this disagrees as many impoverished people may be smarter and harder working than affluent people but lack opportunities. Self-fulfilling prophecies where expectations lead to confirming behaviors could contribute to poverty if people think

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    Poverty negatively impacts individuals, families, and society through poor healthcare, limited job and education opportunities, and increased crime rates. To address this, investments should be made in education, job training, social services, housing, and addressing inequalities. Poverty also affects children by providing less opportunities in school like class trips and advanced courses. Equal opportunities and resources in schools could help decrease these negative effects. Deficiency theory claims people are in poverty due to a lack of characteristics needed to succeed, but this disagrees as many impoverished people may be smarter and harder working than affluent people but lack opportunities. Self-fulfilling prophecies where expectations lead to confirming behaviors could contribute to poverty if people think

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    Poverty negatively impacts individuals, families, and society through poor healthcare, limited job and education opportunities, and increased crime rates. To address this, investments should be made in education, job training, social services, housing, and addressing inequalities. Poverty also affects children by providing less opportunities in school like class trips and advanced courses. Equal opportunities and resources in schools could help decrease these negative effects. Deficiency theory claims people are in poverty due to a lack of characteristics needed to succeed, but this disagrees as many impoverished people may be smarter and harder working than affluent people but lack opportunities. Self-fulfilling prophecies where expectations lead to confirming behaviors could contribute to poverty if people think

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    Poverty negatively impacts individuals, families, and society through poor healthcare, limited job and education opportunities, and increased crime rates. To address this, investments should be made in education, job training, social services, housing, and addressing inequalities. Poverty also affects children by providing less opportunities in school like class trips and advanced courses. Equal opportunities and resources in schools could help decrease these negative effects. Deficiency theory claims people are in poverty due to a lack of characteristics needed to succeed, but this disagrees as many impoverished people may be smarter and harder working than affluent people but lack opportunities. Self-fulfilling prophecies where expectations lead to confirming behaviors could contribute to poverty if people think

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    • What effects do you think poverty has on individuals, families, and society?

    How would you decrease the negative effects of poverty?

    Poor healthcare, Limited job and education opportunities, increased crime


    rates, social exclusion and discrimination. To decrease negative effects of
    poverty, you would need multiple approaches such as, investing in
    education and job training, expanding access to social services, increasing
    housing affordability, and addressing inequalities such as discrimination
    based on race, gender or economic affluence.

    • How does poverty affect children? What do you think should be done to
    decrease the negative effects on children?

    Less opportunities. Class trips, college credit courses, further education,


    many things that are much harder to have access to as a child of poverty. I
    think giving equal opportunities to children regardless of social, or
    economic standing. Creating schools equally would help as well.

    • What is deficiency theory? Do you agree or disagree with this theory? Why?

    It's the belief that people who experience poverty do so because of a lack of
    characteristics needed to succeed in society. Absolutely disagree. Many
    people in poverty may have more work ethic or be smarter than the
    average person born into an affluent household, but without the
    opportunities to make use of that intelligence and work ethic, nothing will
    come of it. And dont get me started on the way society perpetuates
    poverty, many ways of making more money are only available to people
    with money already, and more accessible ways of making money are made
    to prey on people of poverty to make it even harder to go up in the ladder
    of society.

    • What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? Do you think that this contributes to


    poverty? Why or why not?

    A self fulfilling prophecy is a phenomenon in which a belief or expectation


    about a person or situation lead to behaviors or actions that ultimately
    cause that expectation to come true. I do think it can contribute to poverty,
    whether it is direct or indirect. People in poverty may think that they may
    never get out of it, and such making decisions that will not get them
    anywhere. Or people such as teachers may treat students in poverty
    differently.

    • Which approach to solving poverty do you think is the best? Why?

    I think raising intelligence and job skills is a great place to start. Having
    people of poverty think for themselves, and get skills that can get them
    somewhere can help them break out of the rhythm of only fighting to
    survive and instead fight to thrive. Putting in practice is another issue
    altogether.’

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