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Yet, despite the fact that there are social programs designed to provide assistance to the public, there are also a good number of people who remain in poverty and have
a hard time getting out. Often, cases involve situations where generations live in impoverished conditions. Collecting money from the government, having children out of wedlock and using drugs create clusters
of social problems. It is not necessarily true that such stereotypical behavior occurs with all cases of homelessness or even poverty, but it seems as if there are trends that
are difficult to ignore. How do people end up homeless and in poverty, and what can be done about it? First, it is important to relay the facts about homelessness
and poverty in America. Different authors have different ideas about the causes of poverty. Wilson (1987) for example suggests that social problems are just problems of racial inequality.
He explains that there is a disproportionate amount of crime that exists within black neighborhoods (Wilson, 1987). This observation is likely supported by statistics. The author also explains that
the problems go beyond the culture of poverty thesis and says that the problems have complex sociological roots (Wilson, 1987). He adds that "culture of poverty implies that basic values
and attitudes of the ghetto subculture have been internalized and thereby influence behavior. Accordingly, efforts to enhance the life chances of groups such as the ghetto underclass require from this
perspective social policies" (Wilson, 1987, p.61). The author does however claim that while the situation is complicated, certain variables like shifts in the economy, migration, population changes and class transformation
have each contributed to the situation which currently exists (Wilson, 1987). In some way, the situation appears to have been created by complicated sociological phenomena and so, it is not
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