The Importance Of Poverty In The United States

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Poverty should be one of the government priority, It is understandable that the the government cannot take everyone out of poverty, but I believe there should be more action taking towards poverty than there is now. The government think that they are doing there best to get rid of poverty, but in reality they are creating more poverty. In 2013 the 15.8 percent of the United States was receiving income below the poverty line (Census Bureau). It has been decreasing, in 2014 it was 14.8 percent (Census Bureau). Which shows that the government must be doing something, but is it doing enough to prevent poverty from rising again. In other country like Europe, the poverty rate is 2.1 percent, which shows that the U.S government is not doing enough