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The education rates in India are very poor on a global scale. 1/3 of the billion people living in India can read. Extreme poverty is partially due to educational poverty. Only 6% of low income households have invested into education, the rest being spent on necessities like food and fuel.

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Violent crime rates have gone up from 2000-2010 since the federal funding for public safety has declined. What makes it even worse is that the poverty rate for Indian families on reservations is 36%, compared to the national average of 9.2%. Poverty is one of the main root causes of crime, and many people have resorted to crime to get money.

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We need to create jobs to help those 1.3 million people in america who don’t  have jobs
By raising the minimum wage from $7.25/hr to $10.10/hr it would help get 4 million people out of poverty
Closing the wage gap would help single mothers and women and cut poverty in half.
Expand medicare and healthcare
Many people in poverty can’t afford healthcare putting their health in jeopardy, and if affects many children as well because

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Many people in america live in poverty. Many single mothers, especially those of color are deep in poverty because they have their children, but no income from the spouse. There are many children in poverty as well. There is an estimated 15 million kids living in families below the poverty threshold The poverty rate in California has raised 30% since 2007.

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The north and south of India is divided by skin color, sexuality, and by the caste system’

Those in the higher castes like Brahmin, look down upon the untouchables, the lowest caste.

Some people won’t send their children to school because an untouchable is cooking

Caste system has a huge impact on how poverty since you can’t move up or down

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There are 385 million children living in extreme poverty and 30% of them live in India. They're deprived of nutrition (61 million have limited access to food), clean drinking water, good sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education (25% of children have no access), and information. Although it is illegal, 12.5 million children between 5 and 14 are working in the fields, factories, quarries, and private households.