An Emergency to Support the Indigent in the US

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Poverty is a serious phenomenon that has been widespread all over the world. Although, many charitable organizations like CARE, Action Against Hunger (AAH) or Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) have operated with a highest enthusiasm to help the indigent, the amount of those have still been increasing significantly in recent years. According to the survey of the United States Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans in poverty rose from 12.2 to 15.9 percent and the proportion skyrocketed from 33.3 million to 48.8 million between 2000 and 2012 (Bishaw, 2013). The indigent are very poor people, including the disabled, beggars, homeless people who live in slums with lacking of insurance, being unemployed and earning underpaid salaries, about 1.25$ a day (Shah, 2011). Many of them are innocent people who face with mishaps that they cannot control. Consequently, they not only affect the society but also impact on development of the young generation. Therefore, the government should be responsible for take care of the indigent as well as supporting them to enhance the standard of living of citizens and maintain the stability of the society.

Many people tend to become the indigent because of miserable situations that they cannot direct. One incisive example for these difficult circumstances is victims of Agent Orange in the irrational War between the American and the Vietnamese armies. Consequently, they lost abilities to think or communicate with other people. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF, n.d.) investigated that 1.2 million Vietnamese children have suffered from mobility, intellectual, visual or hearing disabilities because of Agent Orange chemical sprayed by the United States (Agent Orange Recor...

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