Analysis Of Poverty: The Song Sixteen Tons By Jonny Cash

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In the previous classes, we talked about how poverty is a societal problem not a monetary problem simply meaning giving every poor person more money isn’t going to simply make poverty vanish away. We said that poverty is an absolute measure. We live in a world where the rich keeps getting richer and the poor just keeps getting poorer. The song Sixteen Tons by Jonny Cash reminds me of inequality and debt. Most people in poverty live have to rely on food stamps which could be used for only certain items. Since most people in poverty don’t have any choices, they live from paycheck to paycheck if they are lucky enough to have a job. Most times, people in poverty have to borrow from payday loan lenders who charge a huge amount of interest on their

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