so I'm doing this survey for a project over poverty and have a few questions and would be greatly appreciated if I could get a few responses.
1. why does poverty exist?

2. determine if poverty can ever be resolved?

Thank you! :) 

1. Cuz people are poor

2. Nope

I guess that wraps it up. You're welcome. 

^^^^^^^^^^^ditto. but your not welcome 

Poverty exist because of choice. It can be overcame if people would try and give life more a fight then giving up 

1. Poverty exists because money exists. There would not be one without the other.

2. No 

According to the ultimate Authority:

1. Poverty exists because people make the wrong choice.

2. The poor will always be with us. 

To the OP, you might want to narrow your focus of inquiry. Global poverty or poverty in other nations has very different causal factors than poverty in the US. It has a lot to do with economic freedoms that vary among the forms of government. What they all have in common is the suppression of economic potential.

You also may want to decide if you're addressing generational poverty, an individual lifelong commitment to poverty, or the most common form of poverty in the US - a temporary phase of income progression. So pick a component of poverty and focus on that or at least keep in mind that not all forms or phases of poverty are the same. In most cases of continuous poverty, there is a willing suppression of economic potential that either comes at the individual level (self-inflicted) or at higher organizational levels (family or governmental).

Also, if you ever come across anyone who answers yes to your second question, just punch them in the face. Stupidity and moronic naivety requires negative reinforcement. Don't enable that stuff. Poverty will always be redefined upward and calculated relative to those that succeed in a given culture. This approach by poverty advocacy groups guarantees that poverty will always be around. So maybe the better answer to your second question has a dependent answer - it will depend on how you choose to define poverty. 

First I would want to see the defiition of poverty.

By FPL (income)or by other methosd then are you limiting it to US standards or global standards?

Too simplistic of a question to be answered definitively.


As for can it be resolved, the answer is NO.

Someone somewhere will always feel they have less than someone else regardless whether they are in the same situation and made all the same choices in life. People are not equal, their opportunities are and what we do with those opportunities define our pathways.

If you eliminate poverty you also eliminate opulence which is the polar opposite of poverty. Without both extremes, neither can exist. 

Also from the latest US Census data of people who self identified as living in poverty they had:

2+ televisions
Cell phones
air conditioning
cars
internet
computers
refridgerators


that's poverty?