The Leading Cause Of Poverty

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Poverty is caused by the lack of education, the lack of resources, and many other reasons. Poverty can be hard to deal with for some people. But the poverty problem can be fixed. These are some of my ideas on how to fix poverty and how it’s caused. To me, the leading cause of poverty is the lack of education. By the lack of education, I mean, people in poverty might not have finished high school at all or all they have is a high school diploma. For example, having only a high school diploma makes it much harder to get a job than it would if they had a Bachelor's degree. The lack of education isn’t the only problem, but to me it’s the largest. One solution I have is trying to get more churches to hand out scholarships to kids who can’t get

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