The Price of Poverty

There is a high price to pay for living the life of those who don’t have any resources to pay it. Most people can imagine that being poor isn’t ideal. But what a lot of people don’t realise is that their idea of poverty might be wrong. There is poverty in the Western world. Poverty does, in fact, happen in the richest countries too. Sometimes, it is just difficult to imagine what that looks like if it isn’t happening in a Unicef commercial. Moreover, poverty often perpetuates itself. There is an actual concept called the “poverty trap.” This is a cycle…...