Poverty: Hard system to break
The facts of Homelessness
- Poverty is going without your basic needs of food, water, shelter and more
- To get people off the streets they need a house in order to get jobs
- 2.7 billion people live on $2.00 a day in this world
- 6 levels of poverty: Absolute, relative, deep, poverty threshold, working poor and living wage
- Not all homeless people are addicted to drugs or lazy, everyone has a story
- When minimum wage was first started it was 25 cents
- 1 of 30 children face hunger and homelessness
- In just one southern city 5,300 students are homeless in a school district
- 963 million people go hungry everyday
- Homelessness has increased with the 22% rise in the cost of living