The Salvation Army a uniquely worthwhile organization is strictly non profit with the bulk of their monies going to help the underserved and starving. The services they provide are extensive and without strings attached. One of these services, job placement seems minimal, but as the ancient Chinese proverb says (The International Thesaurus of Quotations, ed. Rhoda Thomas Tripp p76) “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, Teach a man to Fish and you feed him for a lifetime” This holds true having a job, if one works they may put food on the table without needing handouts. Another

extremely important service is that of helping alcoholics, look in most downtown’s at the homeless, one will see one common theme either drug or Alcoholic usage. Knowing this fact one could surmise that stopping this would greatly impact how ones life is lived, and to help and pull them from the gutters. Today Religious service is extremely understated, many great people such as our president George W. Bush has rose to a new level with religion. The Salvation also offers this to all,

Poverty has many facets from the individual who lives in it to organizations trying to help, to our own government helping out. Though all of these does not eliminate it but with hard work and some helping out the average person should not stay there.

Being an economist gives Author John Kenneth Galibraith great incite into the problem of poverty. From Galibraith’s writings I learned that today most people underestimate how much our country does for the poor, we provide Social Sec

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