Abolishing Poverty In The U.S

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are absolutely poor are relatively poor.
These types of poor are found all throughout the world especially in
underdeveloped countries. In the United States a advanced well-developed
country both absolute and relative poverty are present throughout the country.

I think that absolute poverty has no beneficial purposes to society.
However, relative poverty does have beneficial functions. I think that relative
poverty can make people competitive. It would do this because people always try
to do better then the people around them. This competitiveness might force
people to work overtime or even two jobs in order to make more than the people
around them. There are some major costs that both poverty's have on society.
These costs include: In areas of high poverty there are usually the same areas
of high violence. A second cost to society might be that some people in
poverty might become welfare dependent, this means that they rely solely on
welfare to pay for everything ...

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