Latin American Privilege
For this project we chose a social issue we wanted to research further then picked a Latin American country to learn how the issue affects them. After we chose our topic and place we chose articles that were about our issue in the country we chose and in either the U.S or California (preferably California.) After we read our articles we wrote a summary about both articles explaining the main points and what the article included. We then compared the articles and looked at the similarities and differences between the two.
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Poverty
Poverty is defined by the dictionary as general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Poverty is a worldwide issue but, is it being solved? According to recent estimates, in 2012, 12.7% of the world’s population lived at or below $1.90 a day which is less than the 37% in 1990.
In Mexico, the richest 1 percent own 43% of Mexico’s wealth leaving 46% of their population made up of 122 million civilians left under the poverty line. Multi-Millionaires make up 9% of Mexico’s gross domestic product. According to Oxfam Mexico Executive Director Consuelo Lopez-Zuriaga, 48% of state schools don’t have access to sewage, 31% have no drinking water, 12.8% have no bathrooms or toilets and 11.2% have no access to electricity.
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Poverty is defined by the dictionary as general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Poverty is a worldwide issue but, is it being solved? According to recent estimates, in 2012, 12.7% of the world’s population lived at or below $1.90 a day which is less than the 37% in 1990.
In Mexico, the richest 1 percent own 43% of Mexico’s wealth leaving 46% of their population made up of 122 million civilians left under the poverty line. Multi-Millionaires make up 9% of Mexico’s gross domestic product. According to Oxfam Mexico Executive Director Consuelo Lopez-Zuriaga, 48% of state schools don’t have access to sewage, 31% have no drinking water, 12.8% have no bathrooms or toilets and 11.2% have no access to electricity.
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