An Analysis Of Children, Hunger, And Poverty

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Throughout the years, poverty has remained a stumbling block to our economic growth in our grandiose nation. The dilemma will not allow our country to advance if nothing potent is done about the dilemma. Poverty is a problem because houses are expensive. The lack of higher education in the lower class is an effect to poverty. The struggle to afford nutritious food is also a problem because you need a healthy brain to be able to study and learn better. The article “Children, Hunger, and Poverty” describes the situation this way: “A hungry world will never be a secure world, and it can never be a just world, especially for those too young to voice their pleas for food” (Raphel, np.). For example, being born into a low economic class family made …show more content…

My parents only completed part of their high school education because they needed to help bring income to their family in Mexico. My dad would come to Kansas during harvest seasons with his older brother and make some money to bring back to Mexico. My mom tagged along with my younger sister who was a year old at that time, since she wanted to be by my dad’s side. During harvest season of 1996, my mom got pregnant and decided to have me here in America. Once she had me here, she would return back to Mexico, where she had more family support. We had some family in America, but at that time they also had not been here long, so they were struggling to survive as …show more content…

They wanted to move to the United States to give us a better education. That was the major turning point in my life because everything changed after that. Suddenly we were not living in a brick house anymore, we were living in a trailer house, which was something unfamiliar to us. Mexico does not build trailer houses, nor do people live in them. We were living in my grandma’s trailer house in Scott City, Kansas. My dad worked longer hours than he made in Mexico with his brother in a farming company every morning until night. Our scheduled meals were not the same anymore and because of work, our communication lessened. Up to this day, we still are living in a trailer house, but in much better conditions. We have added two members in the family, which makes us spend a greater amount of money. My mom once in a while cleans houses and makes enough money for bills, to pay. Since sometimes we do not have enough money to pay for bills, my dad uses credit cards; however, credit cards puts ourselves in more

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