Poverty

It is an inability to provide a family with nutritious food, clothing and reasonable clothing. The Structural and Cultural causes of poverty Structural causes: Based on race, class or gender, among the various institutional environment that tend to sustain a multitude of economic barriers to different groups poverty t should be traced to some structural factors that is inherent to the economy and several institutional environment which tend to favor certain groups over others according to supporters of the structural school of though. Due to a patriarchal society, poverty among women is very evident; due to this the rise of poverty among women is an important structural level variable to consider. 1n 1993 Massey and Denton argued that in general institutional racism and residential segmentation in particular is very much indeed a critical structural level cause of severe poverty in the black community. Discrimination against blacks is also quite evident on the economic disparity, it is clearly seen when one views the data on white and black median income, the percentile of the black median income relative to the white income in 1947 was 51%. In the year 2002 the figure has risen to only 62%( US census 2002 ). Very clearly racial prejudice not only emanate from institutional racism but rather reinforces it, therefore it has sustain the barrier that prohibit or bar other non white Americans and blacks from shedding the idiosyncratic cultural adaptations that they have made to live and survive with. Cultural causes: Oscar Lewis an anthropologist working in slum areas and shanty towns in South America came up with the theory that the individual’s belief, attitude, values and general patterns of behavior are what cause poverty after he observed that people in this environment realized that they exhibited quite a different culture, these people held an attitude of fatality these people also have a present time orientation due to this characteristics this people are...