In a resent thread the feeling I get is that poverty is seen as some obstacle that would take an act of God to get beyond, that once you end up, or start out poor, it is a wash, they system is out of reach, and there is no bettering one’s self because they are too busy just trying to remain just below zero to do anything to move the line forward. That would make poverty a setback like deafness, blindness, being born with a deformed limb, etc. so should they be considered disabled as if they had a chronic disease and be given disability? If there is nothing they can do for themselves to alleviate their plight, someone (in this case more like the government) should step in and save them.

Topics: support, aid, diseases, poverty, helplessness, Disadvantage