Poverty

Poverty Suppose there was a shallow ornamental pond at Merced College. As you walked pass it on your way to class you notice that a small child, maybe 3 or 4 has fallen in and is in danger of drowning. Would you deny the obligation to wade in and pull the child out' Yes, this would mean getting your clothes muddy and wet. But compared to the avoidable death of a child is this insignificant' When I heard this comparison to poverty in my philosophy class it got my attention. I have researched the topic in the library and on the Internet finding more information to feed my interest. Today I will be discussing the need to assist poor countries. As you all agreed in my questionnaire world poverty is a problem today and since the United States economic standing is far greater than many of the rest of the worlds we should help assist the poor countries to save them from drowning. Now, let’s take a look at the problem of poverty. The World Watch Institute estimates that as many as 1 billion people live in absolute poverty which they sum up as “A condition so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid poverty, poor, countries, people, assist, world, solution, life, food, country, problem, now, make, expectancy, education, eat, child, year, way, very, useless, united, tv, today, should, rest, place, ourselves, old, money, malnutrition, human, fish, financial, faso