The 'Cats' Meow
Poverty, Homelessness a Global Epidemic
A Woodland High School student looks at the homelessness and hunger affecting more than 3 billion people worldwide.
Poverty is a worldwide epidemic that affects more than 3 billion people. People all around the world are struggling, not just with being able to pay off their debts, but also struggling to pay for their children’s education, being able to feed them, or providing them with clothing. Nearly half of the world’s people live on less than $2.50 a day. The global economy just keeps getting worse and more people are losing their jobs. This can mean that a family is in risk of losing food to eat and other proper things they need to be able to live, the most important being water. The average person is only able to live a maximum of three days without water. In developing, third-world countries, clean water is not in abundance as it is for us here …
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