The Issue Of Poverty In America

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The U.S can no longer hide from its deep poverty problem. Most people believe that the extreme poverty problem for example the United Nations has vanished from America and no one in America is surely not as poor as someone in Nepal or Ethiopia. Even though there isn’t extreme poverty in America like the other countries America still has pretty bad poverty. For example we can not stop the people from sitting on the floor hoping for people to give them money and America can no longer stop this. American poverty is an issue that America can’t stop and should be something wealthy people should help. Every time you eat food and don’t finish it so you throw it out that would most probably help an American family who suffer from poverty

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