"If poverty was a man, we would have killed him." This is a quote which asserts that poverty is a killer that causes pain and death. When a person burns his hand, he would feel pain that he can't stand. But what would a child that walks barefooted on hard asphalt feel? He has nothing that could settle the torture except for the matches he's trying to sell. This is the life of a poor person working through the pain to sell little things on the streets. This sight shows that being poor affects one's life a lot. Some of the effects poverty on the poor are health effects, psychological effects, and social effects. Being poor causes major effects on one's health. A child crying because of sickness, a father sent away from a hospital, a mother coughing blood with no medicine are all scenes that show how health with no money is being affected. It's easier to count a poor man’s bones, for his empty stomach would eventually feed on his flesh till he turns into a skinny barely shown figure. Those are more likely to be victims of vicious diseases and conditions, for their bodies are helpless and their immunity system too …show more content…
Poverty makes people violent. What would be expected from a child who grew up in need? When entering a poor house, do people ask themselves why a girl has killed her mother with a piece of glass, or are they always busy sending it to the media? The answer would be because of a fight for 100 dollars. The reason why they become aggressive is because the setting they grew up in is aggressive. Poverty grows cases of theft and murder. Those surrounded by poverty are often victims of human trafficking in all its forms such as sex trade, organs trafficking, and slavery. Those also suffer from not knowing how to read due to their inability to afford the tuitions and fees which further heighten their poverty and inability to change their situation, for their job opportunities would be