Why Are There Poor People

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every day. He told me that I was
very lucky to have all the things that I had, and that millions of kids in the
world would die to have the life I had. I was still very confused about the
whole situation. Why wasn't every family like ours? What did those people do
wrong? My dad just said that was life . . . some people are lucky, and some
people aren't.
At first, I thought that all poor people were the same, but I later
found out that anybody can be poor. Through the years, I learned that not all
people are born into poverty, that some people can become poor over time.
People can have steady jobs and eventually layoffs occur or seniority rules.
Innocent people who do their job and does it well can be knocked right out of
their position. It doesn't matter if it hurts that person or their family.
So many children grow up, taking for granted all of the luxuries that
they were lucky enough to have. As a child, it's very difficult to stop and
realize that there are so many ...

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