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Overview:
Over 800 million people go hungry each day(Live in). The majority of these people were put into poverty by economic depression/recession. Since 2011, there were 6.7 billion people who were unemployed(Unemployed). Unemployment is the trigger that can lead to poverty or homelessness. More than 100 million people are homeless worldwide(Sherwood).

To get a better understanding of these topics, poverty is when you do not have the basic things that you need to survive. Economic depression/recession is when there is an economic slowdown, mostly causing unemployment. Lastly, Homelessness is defined as without a shelter for protection.

**Problems: **
The Economy is a major problem, but the economy gets broken down into three more categories:

__Homelessness:__
 Homelessness happens when you do not have a job or enough money to support housing for yourself. Around 3.5 million people every year become homeless, and their income is less than $300. Being Homeless can happen to anyone, but 51% of the homeless in the world are single men. Homelessness is a serious problem that needs to be helped (Statistics).

__Poverty:__
Poverty is when you don’t have the necessary things that you need to survive. Some examples might be that you don’t have enough money, or a home. You also might not have an education, or healthcare. About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty today(Poverty). After being in Economic Depression/Recession, the effect is poverty. To get even deeper into the subject, poverty is a part of EconomicDepression/Recession. Once you have run out of money, (which is economic depression), you are in poverty. This can then lead to homelessness. Poverty is sometimes the reason why people need things like welfare, or charity. 2.7 billion people live on less than $2.00 a day(Poverty).

__Economic Depression/Recession:__
An economic recession is when there is a drop in the revenue in the stock market for two consecutive quarters. The economic depression/recession that affected the  United States started in 2008 and continued until 2009. The effect of this is many people losing their jobs. Without jobs, people are no longer making money. Economic depression is classified as a sustained, downturn in economic activity. It can also be an abnormally large amount of unemployment (Depression). After  the start of Economic Depression, it is hard to get out of it, and it can lead to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">poverty.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All these things work together to make one big economic problem. They act like dominoes and lead one problem to the next. What was once just running out of money, is now leading to poverty, and homelessness.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Homelessness:__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In many major cities there are homeless shelters for homeless people, where they sleep every night. The city will do a gap analysis, so they can get a count of all the homeless people in the city, and then they can act upon that number. Also, the homeless can qualify for public assistance.But all cities may not have that kind of help. So this where the public can get involved. The community can donate money and that can get homeless people placed into permanent housing. In permanent housing, the homeless will have a nice house to live in, and they will start from scratch with their employment and their finances (Priesnitz).

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Poverty:__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A solution that could help the majority of poverty problems would be to guarantee that everyone gets basic rights. These include food, shelter, clean water, healthcare, education, and basic human rights. It may be hard to do, but another solution would be to generate more jobs. This means more people can earn money so that they afford things like food and shelter. To help with poverty in Education, we simply have to raise the level of the minimal amount of education. There is no one way to solve poverty, but the things above are the best things we can do, along with educating the public about poverty, and hope that they do something (Causes).

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Economic Depression/Recession: __
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Recessions come and go and some are more severe and last longer than others. But history shows that recessions invariably end, and when they do, an economic recovery follows" (Davis). Following that logic the U.S. should be in an economic recovery right now. There are some signs of recovery starting up again but still the world is not the world that was there before the recession. In March 2011 the U.S. added 216,000 and that lowered the unemployment rate to 8.8% (Marks). This is yet another example that this last recession is going to get better. In March 2011 there were a lot expectations for the addition of jobs for the economy. The jobs added did fall short of which was expected but still added 230,000 in the private sector and 216,000 in other sectors(Marks). This is a staggering amount, that means that there are 446,000 Americans back to work in March alone, another sign that America is out of the recession is coming back to it's place before. Even with all of these jobs added local governments lost 15,000 jobs, and since its peak in 2008 has lost 416,000 jobs total (Marks). This is not good, the loss of these jobs has meant a lot to a lot of people in America.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> President Obama: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When asked about how finance was the original problem the President was very precise in what he said. "I think that we should distinguish between finance as the lifeblood of our economy and finance as a significant industry where we have a comparative advantage" (Leonhardt). This is what he said, making sure people knew that he had very different views of what finance is and showin <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">g that he is very thoughtful. President Obama later says that he is optimistic that the financial sector will regain strength however not regain the confidence and trust just as fast (Leonhardt). This lost of trust will be what hurts the economy in the long run. When asked about the Silicon Valley and Wall Street the president had a very interesting input on that subject. "That doesn’t mean, though, that Silicon Valley is still not a huge, critical, important part of our economy, and Wall Street will remain a big, important part of our economy, just as it was in the ’70s and the ’80s. It just won’t be half of the U.S. economy. And that means that more talent, more resources will be going to other sectors of the economy. And I actually think that’s healthy" (Leonhardt). This is interesting because it's not the kind of thing that someone would expect from a President of a big [|corporation] country like the United States. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you want to read any more of this interview go to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03Obama-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1__] ==

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[] Website with PSA <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.endhomelessness.org/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Help stop Homelessness. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Problem of Poverty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.gurusoftware.com/gurunet/knowledgebase/social/poverty.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Solutions to Poverty <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.buzzle.com/articles/economic-recession-and-depression-definition-and-difference.html__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03Obama-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1?pagewanted__][|__=1__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- President Obama interview <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Causes of the Great Recession: Mainstream and Heterodox Interpretations and the Cherry Pickers. Rep. Print.- Causes of recession <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">United States of America. National Bureau of Economic Research. EFFECTS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND GREAT RECESSION ON AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS. By Micheal D. Hurd. Print.- government program with stats and analysis and effects of the [|recession] ==

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