Topic: Poverty

Questions to consider:
- What is poverty? What is poverty to you?
- Why is there poverty?
- Is there a realistic solution to end poverty?
- Who makes the poor- society or the individual?
- Is a nation responsible for its poor?
- Should a nation take responsibility for its poor?
- Are government and private programs aimed at poverty working?
- Feel free to post additional questions below!

Selected sources:
Institute for Research on Poverty
National Center for Children in Poverty
U.S. Census Bureau

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