Poverty

Millions of people are suffering from poverty that remains to be the key problem. The incidence of poverty and the number of poor families actually increased. There is no doubt that many people suffer from malnutrition, occasional hunger, lack of adequate shelter and constant struggle for survival.

Poverty is caused both by individual problems and general socioeconomic difficulties. The individual problems include family break-ups, physical handicaps, mental illness, drug use, alcoholism, and irregular work habits. Why are these so? Family, first of all, is the foundation of every individual. Breakups in turn deprive children of the support they needed from their parents. Physical handicaps are due to accident or disease. Inevitable happening due to extreme shock causes mental illness. Irregular working habits is simply influenced by laziness. Drug use and alcoholism are turn to thinking that it may help them put behind all their disturbing thoughts. These and all are what impede the growth of an individual. A socioeconomic condition over which an individual has little control, on the other hand, is contributory to greatest amount of poverty. Unemployment, low wages, and low farm production are the major causes of poverty or ill.

Further to that is the squatter problem, which cannot just get rid of. Migration has far exceeded the demand for labor. Millions of residents in city, but in provincial cities, are squatters. They simply put together makeshift shacks without getting permission from property owners. Often, they lack water and sanitary facilities and, typically, are crowded. Worse, their flimsy houses are fire hazard. They do not have regular jobs. Mostly were committed to occasional laboring jobs, if not, none at all. It is easy to conclude that the squatter problem is the result of too many people leaving the rural areas. But, this is highly questionable because population growth has been so great that after urban migration there are still more people than ever in rural districts. Squatters usually say that even though they face hardship, they feel life is improving and that they do not want to move back to the province. Though, they may find jobs and upgrade their living quarters, their conditions is still a problem.

The problem of poverty is serious and efforts to solve it will continue, but effective and efficient solutions are hard to find.