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Essay About Being Rich Or Poor

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We all try to get by in this world by having the best of all things, but not everybody's lives are the same. There are people that struggle through being poor and people that are rich. I’m going to explain the differences of not being able to have nice things to affording anything, being on government aid to self supporting, being in debt to debt free, less educational chances in life and being able to go to college and finally having worse then better health care. The differences of being poor or rich is a huge problem in this world. To change this problem, if you make less than 50 thousand dollars a year and have a family then you don’t have to pay income tax. The topic of being poor or rich is a high priority to families and their financial circumstances. There are many issues that come with being poor or rich. One issue is not being able to have nice things compared to affording anything. The poor are more likely to wear older clothes, hand me downs, have older or no vehicle at all, live in non up kept homes or even on the street. The rich can afford …show more content…

Children are more likely to drop out of school if they are poor, because it can be from not having the right books, transportation, teachers, or even having to go to work to support themselves or a family. The parents of poor families have even dropped out of college because it became too much of a burden on income situations, transportation, supporting the family or tuition fees. Whenever anybody that is poor has to stop their education progress, then they are enabling themselves from getting farther in life. The rich are able to have higher education, because they have less worries than the poor. The rich have supportive parents and families, they have scholarships or a paid education to cover their learning needs. The rich are more likely to have better grades and are able to study without any more interruptions on their education

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