Causes of poverty

Poverty is a serious problem that the world is facing right now.  Every day, the number of poor families increases around the world and the situation is getting worse.  There are a lot of factors that cause poverty. Some are: unemployment, immigration, lack of studies, lack of interest to work, low economic resources, large families, the economic crisis and more. 

The first factor is unemployment. Not every worker receives the enough money to live without necessities, some people with or without degrees is having trouble to find a job, any kind of work. Nowadays, some companies are discharging employees because of the economic crisis and others are paying a low salary. Unemployment is a serious cause of poverty because is a common situation in our country and in the world.

The second factor is immigration. Thanks to the immigrants the countries become saturated, the services collapse for example, here in Costa Rica the hospital services collapsed because there is a lot of Nicaraguan population here, and obviously all the hospitals can’t attend so many people. So this problem not only affects the services it also is a cause of the existence of suburbs where people live in extremely poverty, with necessities of food and basic services.

The third factor is the large families. Even though, nowadays, the majority of families are having only one or two kids, other families are still having many children. For these large families, it is necessarily to receive a high-pay salary, but unfortunately some of them receive a low salary, and so this is an important cause of poverty. But the most important cause is the crisis that the world is facing.

We all know that poverty is increasing, but what can we do to eliminate this problem? In order to achieve that purpose we can work hard but with the entire world, making the efforts together as one. That is the only choice, poverty can be solved but we need to start now.