Erika Tyler

Dr.Broadous

PAS 113B

3/19/12

Throw away people: The painful life

The article I read about the homeless and it said, "In the United States and Japan, there are million peoples who are homeless or becoming homeless are having a hard time with their lives." But, it isn’t only these two countries that are having this issues. The average age of the homeless population in Japan are around 55 years old, compared to an average age of 45 years for homeless individuals in the United States. The difference between Japan and America is the way they deal with the homeless. Homeless families , women, and children are relatively rare In Japan. One of the most distinct features of Japanese homelessness is that 95 percent of the homeless are either middle aged or older single men who are unemployed and have no contact with their families or relatives, and the proportion of homeless women is extremely small, only 3 percent because women are often taken care of by surrounding family members. Besides, there are a number of reason as to why so many are suddenly without a home. One of the most common reason is there are simple no jobs. In the United States, the most common reason for peoples becoming homeless are due to issues such as unemployment, and or they cannot afford to repay a loan.

In United States the way the public has chosen to address the homeless situation is really kind because, american peoples would try to help out their homeless population by having food bank or homeless shelter or any other volunteer events such as having the homeless peoples and their family and friends volunteer their time to work directly at a shelter. But, in Japan the circumstances is different it depends mostly on family's situation however, the only time Japanese peoples would help is when those families are really poor or really sick and cannot afford medical treatment. But, if the homeless is a single guy they would actually prefer for a life on the streets rather than facing the humiliation of asking for help from family or friends. Although, in most circumstances family members will not help them out. And the Japanese government isn't quite sure what to do about its homeless population. In Japanese articles it said, "before Japanese government help out the homeless population they are going to make sure that they ask their family members for support because there simply isn’t many homeless shelter or food bank in Japan.”

There are various types of homeless peoples and some situations it's not really homeless. There are those people who become homeless only because of financial mismanagement. How they organized their finances was insufficient to deal with necessities required to maintain a home. They made a few incorrect decision with their money causing them to have inadequate funds to pay for housing. For this group, it is that simple. And for them, the solution to end their homelessness is equally as simple. All they need do is correct their financial situation and in a very short amount of time, they will find themselves back in a home. For the most part, Their homeless experience last a very short time from just a day or two, to a few months at the most. Often, theses peoples fix their homeless situation by themselves , or with very little assistance. Another group of peoples become homeless because their decision making process are impaired by extenuating circumstance, such as illness, or addictions. Most of these peoples are living in homeless shelter, under a bridge, and also living on the streets in cardboard boxes. Most people's are living a conformable life and with luck are able to keep themselves away from this situation.

The U.S. economy has fallen and some people are questioning how this happen and what caused the economy to dramatically fall. One reason the U.S. economy is not stable is because of United States Government using too much money for the wars and greed. Banks became too greedy and gave loans to peoples that couldn't afford them. And consumers became too greedy and bought homes, cars and things on credit cards they couldn't afford. As a result, many homeowners have lost their homes because of this. The United States economic meltdown also played a major role pushing peoples into poverty or homeless.

Therefore, some peoples started to live in their cars, camp tents because they lost the house. So these people go to food bank to get a decent meal and to take a shower. Although, some people may still have a house to live in but, they choose to eat at the food back and sometimes take showers because they do not have enough money to afford everything (low income). Where peoples have lost everything during the economic crisis end up in very dire straits for one reason or another. Most likely, these peoples ended up living on the streets in cardboard house. These are the homeless peoples. Unfortunately, even though Obama have been working to solve the economic problem since 2010, the economy continue to struggling with a slow moving unshakable growth but not faster enough to create enough jobs for everyone out there who are looking for work to support their family. The trouble is that our current problems cannot be solved with a simple fix and cannot be solved quickly . It took a decade for us to get to this point, and it will likely take us at least a decade to work our way out of it, even if we make the right decisions.

The economic meltdown have dramatically reduced government revenue and caused the military to forcibly discharged so many peoples and cut many government civilian jobs related to the military because of budget cuts and also the government had to make cutback on higher education funding . And with tuition costing more some students ends up quitting school. Another reason poverty exist in this century even though peoples have higher education some peoples will still not be able to work because of the economy crisis. If the economy was the way it used to be back in late 1990s then most people's will probably be able to work at a company. But, since the economy isn’t doing as good and peoples expected most people's will really have chance to get a job even though peoples graduated from college. So these are a few reasons why poverty and homeless exist and constantly increasing every year.

There are a few things that you can do to decrease the poverty and homeless situation. The two easy way to avoid poverty in the United States is first bring back all the factories we have in foreign countries that alone will help create millions of jobs. But, they wouldn't do that because out sourcing jobs overseas is cheap labor. The second thing we can do for us to keep ourselves out of poverty is to better manage our financial situation. People should start to question their self-such as “what or how we should manage our money?” and also “what step does people take to keep their self and their family away from poverty” if we have a good answer to those two question then we should be able to avoid and or keep our self away from poverty.