Introduction Many countries have tried to fight poverty using all their means but have not succeeded. They have come up with strategies intended to reduce the poverty levels, and most of them have ended up accelerating the encroachment of poverty on the citizens. Politicians have included plans that seem good enough to eradicate poverty, yet the level of poverty has stagnated and even increased in most parts of the world. George Orwell discusses poverty and its implications on the people of Coq d’Or in France: “Henri, who worked in the sewers. He was a tall, melancholy man with curly hair…” (Orwell 6). Many of them live below the poverty line despite working hard to eradicate poverty. Many other scholars who did research on poverty reiterated his argument. Almost all the scholars that wrote about the causes and effects of poverty agree that the lack of well-paying jobs is the primary cause of the prevalence of poverty among the people. This paper argues that the prevalence of poverty in most parts of the US is a result of poor strategizing, the lack of education, mistakes in choosing courses, the disappearance of low-skill jobs and a breakdown in the structure of the family. Bridge These factors contribute to the increased rate of poverty in the US in different ways. Poor strategizing falls on the government and other political leaders. They have not done their part to the best of their abilities. The lack of education partly falls on the part of the government, partly on the lack of resources and partly on the total disregard of education. The breakdown of the family structure is a result of a culture that has cropped up in America over the past two decades, where people consider divorce and illegitimate thing as something ordinary. Analysis Education is a very critical factor in the fight against poverty. Orwell describes the problems that people experience in foreign countries. His characters, Boris and the narrator work as hotel attendants, and what they are paid is not enough to sustain them. Worse still, they are unable to get other jobs after losing their jobs due to the lack of enough education to secure them good jobs: “I decided to start looking for a job, and—very luckily, as it turned out—I took the precaution of paying two hundred francs for a month’s rent in advance” (Orwell 16). Many of the people living below the poverty line are high school dropouts and others who dropped out even earlier. As such, they cannot secure any well-paying employment. They depend on non-skill and low-skill jobs for their survival. However, there are very few such jobs in the contemporary American society: “But low-skilled and humdrum jobs, particularly in manufacturing, have gone overseas, or fallen victim to automation” (“The Poor in America in Need of Help” par. 11). Therefore, these groups of people struggle for the few opportunities. Many of them end up missing the jobs. In the US, the majority of the people living below the poverty line are blacks and Hispanics. On the other hand, only a tenth of white Americans live in these conditions. The reason for this situation is the historical stigma against blacks and Hispanics. In the 1960s and before, blacks were never allowed to go to school. They served as slaves for their white masters. As a result