Poverty is a growing issue that is happening right now as you are reading this. Billions of people around the world have a level of poverty, some people maybe more poor than others, but the point is that poverty exist, and it doesn't seem to want to go away anytime soon. Approximately 21,000 people die everyday of hunger due to poverty. Click the link to find out more about world hunger.http://www.poverty.com/. A lot of the reasons why people are poor, could be their governments do not give them abilities to get money, also maybe the country they are in doesn't have enough money to give out. The amount of money that people do not have is enormous and is growing each and everyday. If you were to count children, 1 out 2 children and living in poverty. Poverty is growing more since the 1950s. After the second World War, poverty has been rising by the thousands, and even millions!