There are family that live in poverty in the US even though the US is a great country with so many opportunities for advancement. It's a surprise sometimes but there are many family that live in poverty and some are homeless. I used to work in Los Angeles California and the street of Hollywood and Sunset blvd. are filled with homeless living in cardboard boxes. Along the street in Hollywood are hundreds of men and women sleeping on the side of the street in the cold and the rain. It's a sad sight but it happens. I have wonder why these people have ended up that way. There are many reasons why people live in poverty and it's not unusual to have homeless people and people barely surviving. People should make an effort to stay above the poverty level and work hard to be prosperous instead of suffering with the many opportunities to succeed out there.
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People that have many family members to support and they have a low income job could be living in poverty. My aunt has ten kids and she doesn't work as well as her husband. The children in her home tried to work hard but they have moved to the US from a foreign country and they're limited by the English language. Although her children don't speak enough English, they tried hard to work and make money. It's easy for a family like this to live in poverty since they're new to the US and they're limited by their language barrier. They also don't have an education and they don't have parents to support them. They live in a low cost state, NC, and that helps out a bit in reducing their cost. Family like this one are barely surviving and this is one of the cases of family living in poverty.

The US is still a great place with too many opportunities for people that really want to succeed. There are also many different types of businesses and some doesn't required you to speak English at all like work at China Town if you're Chinese. You can also open a business in China Town and you don't have to speak English. Each culture have their own town in most states for those that need to work but don't speak enough English. If you don't speak enough English you can make a strong effort to learn the language since it will help you get so many jobs later on in life and you will do better for yourself. Language is something that kept some family back from making more money. Family that have migrated from a foreign country usually have this problem. It's best that they dedicate a lot of time to learning the English language because it's not that difficult to learn English. It would take a year or two but you'll learn it.

You can do better than poverty if you commit yourself to improving yourself in education and skills. You would also need to have confidence and motivation to move on with your life. You should make effort to get help if you don't feel like working. There are people who don't have enough motivation to get out there into the working world. I have had some friends that were 26 years old and they have never hold a job and that's not the norm. I think that people live in poverty because there are some people in a family who don't work and they're relying on one or two other members to support them. I know a lot of friends who have older siblings who don't work and depends on the younger siblings to work and support them.

I think that poverty is something that you can escape if you're hard working and if you commit yourself to make more money. You can escape poverty if you put your head to it and we have seen successful stories over over in life like the true story that was made into the movie, " The Pursuit of Happiness." In this movie, a homeless man who sold blood in order to survive became a millionaire one day because he committed himself to make more money. You can do it if you put your mind to it and poverty is not the hardest thing to battle in life. There are worst things like cancer and people have no control over that. You have control over poverty and you can change your fate. There are chances for you to be self-employed as well if you know how to run a business and if you commit yourself to do better in life. When you run a business, you don't really need a college degree even. In the US, there're plenty of ways to make more money and you should make it a priority to improve your financial status every day. If you set goals, you will be albe to escape poverty in no time.