Poverty & Inequality

Poverty and Inequality 

hello everyone my name is Joshua Briscoe

and today I'm here to talk to you about

poverty and inequality I am to ask you a

few questions as well as respond them

and hope you learn a thing or two to

start off to ask you the first question

of the day following what is the concept

behind the word poverty what's behind it

take your time to think now that you

know what you think I'll tell you what I

think basically poverty can't be put

into an even smaller word which is lack

poverty is the lack of pretty much

everything you need to live a healthy

life and if you experience extreme

poverty however you may end up with the

inevitable cause of passing away or

however you call it but a bit earlier

than expected now on to my second

question how can we solve poverty

through social peace what is social

peace but I like this social peace is

one way from keeping social life far

from internal government problems by

creating relationships between different

sectors of society sum up what I just

said social peace tries to offer

solutions to conflicts between different

sectors of society why do I think it

would work but I like this would you

like to punch your friend would you like

to spit on them give them a smack in the

face no it'd never do that it's the same

with social peace now that both sectors

of society have now made a sort of Union

they don't want to hurt each other the

want to keep on building and have a

stable social life away from internal

government problems a good example of

this is the welfare states the welfare

state was established in Britain in 1945

just after the war it was introduced to

combat poverty after the war and help

people who are in such situations from

cradle to grave

very popular culture in fact this

included free medical provisions under

the NHS National Health Service improved

public education and that's a housing of

working conditions these sets of laws

that created the welfare states were

established by the British Labour Party

in 1945 in the English general election

after landslide victory mainly because

they promised to tackle poverty to sum

up what I said in those two paragraphs

the welfare state aim to combat poverty

and inequality after the war and

recognition of all all the efforts made

by all social classes in wartime the

government wanted to is wanted it to

establish equal rights between the

working middle and upper classes in

conclusion we can see social PC because

all the different sectors of society

have worked together in a long and very

painful war and now they all get

privileged now they're all equal and

they don't they don't have fights about

resources they've made a source of Union

now on to my first question of the day

I've said why poverty was the concept

behind the word poverty how can we solve

it why is it so important

basically poverty is so important

because it has such grave effects on

people such as cognitive problems and

health problems cognitive problems are

caused because many many of the families

that have kids and live in poverty can't

afford any decent education this leads

to the kid that lives with the

poverty-stricken family not knowing any

of the basic concepts of knowledge and

you know what that leads to nothing

positive if your son doesn't know how to

read or write you know he's not he's

gonna have real cognitive problems and

health problems are caused because the

families that live in poverty can't

afford no vaccinations nor medicines nor

food nor drink this inevitably leads to

hunger first and lots and lots of

diseases and we can't date and we can't

say that's specifically positive

a good example of this is Haiti Haiti is

one of the most troubled countries in

the world in terms of poverty and

inequality hospitals overflowing with

people protests around cases of mass

killings and a political crisis it is

recognized as the poorest country in the

Western Hemisphere

according to cnn.com a reason behind

this could be the 2010 7.0 magnitude

earthquake in Haiti which left a lot of

people homeless I don't know the exact

numbers but I know that it was a lot of

people according to world that the org

six million high teens out of the ten

million that live in Haiti live on less

than $2 41 cents per day which is a

record-breaking status does anyone know

you know how much$2 40 want census in

pesos no well it's approximately around

seven thousand seven thousand five

hundred pesos rounding and that's very

little that barely afford you any of the

resources you need to live a healthy

life

barely and according to cnn.com again

80% of the Hadean population live on the

poverty so not only the people that live

on less than $2 41 cents per day but

also that people that live on the $5 $10

$15 - in conclusion they shows how

poverty can have such a grave effect on

people and on a country basically so if

you could try help combat these

situations in recognition of Haiti help

an organization donate to a charity do

something to stop poverty now on to my

penultimate question I said I was going

to talk about poverty but also about

inequality now what is inequality what

is mainly income inequality here it is

what an economy grows both sides of the

income Society rose as well that means

some of the poor people's income can

grow they may be able to get out of

poverty and you may be thinking yeah

brilliant well it's not as positive as

you think

because the difference in money between

the poor now middle-class McMiller

classes income and the rich even richer

now income is the same

this causes social tension and V

jealousy and this leads to a very big

impact on the country that is happening

a good example of this is up sorry well

doesn't matter is South Africa South

Africa after the partition between the

white white Dutch and British colonizers

and the black original community from

South Africa was abolished Nelson

Mandela came to power his purpose his

mission was to combat inequality because

before then it had been a lot very

unequal everything was going to the

white people and basically nothing to

the black people it was very unequal

and Nelson Mandela's point points his

purpose was to establish equal rights

but because he wanted to remain

Democratic he wanted to make it 50/50 he

didn't impose very strict policies of

redistribution wealth and economic power

that means even after Nelson Mandela's

death South Africa remains to be the

most unequal country on earth after what

I just said this is my last question of

the day you think do you think are you

able to enjoy all your fancy holidays or

your glamorous money spending stuff I

don't know when you've got people lying

dead on the floor and I don't know where

on earth poverty in Colombia the

situation in Haiti you think it's

possible to enjoy all that with all the

situations with all the poverty and

inequality on earth just think about it

because me and my family we try to help

we try to combat poverty as much as

possible by donating and we thought

about this question

we fought behind they and we want you to

think about it as well now to end

I want you to think about the policies

that pause both poverty and inequality

and as Nelson Mandela said it always

seems impossible until it's done

Joshua Briscoe thank you