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Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money.
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Basic Facts About Poverty
•The gap between rich and poor grows and is larger now than it has ever been in recorded history.
•More than 1 billion people lack adequate access to clean drinking water and an estimated 400 million of these are children. Because unclean water yields illness, roughly 443 million school days are missed every year
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Global Justice
•The idea that we have duties of justice to all human beings based solely on their humanity alone, without reference to nationality, citizenship, ethnicity, race, religion, gender or other particularities.
•If justice is defined as ‘just treatment and the quality of being fair and equitable……’
•Then global justice refers to just treatment of all humans and the quality of being fair and equitable to those beyond our borders.
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Why ‘We’ Have to Care
•It is a matter of happenstance where a person is born. Determining just treatment on the accident of birth is arbitrary and unfair.
•There are global institutions that greatly alter the lives of those beyond our borders.
•Globalization creates ‘relational conditions’ that demand social cooperation and culpability, where the scope of justice applies.
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How To Stop Poverty
Unfortunately, there is no way to completely get rid of poverty.
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Some practical solutions to reduce poverty
1. Through education. All those kids who live in the ghetto and the inner city and such don't get a proper education, and thus cannot get themselves jobs.
2. Clean up cities. And by that, I mean getting rid of crime and such, not picking up trash. Again, in the ghetto, where poverty is common, many kids are forced into a gang life, which pretty much destroys any chance of a successful future.
3. Reduce taxes for the poor, raise them for the rich. Not excessively or the upper class will get mad, but enough so that the poor have a better chance at life.
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