Society, the self, and other factors are all explanations of how poverty is created. In class and outside of class we have seen the contrasts of the arguments about the personal and societal causes of poverty. Historically, people in the United States have valued self-reliance, and believed that social standing is mostly a matter of individual talent and effort. Birth, feminization, race, and age also contribute to the problem of poverty.
Poverty is therefore an inevitable product of all systems of social inequality.
High paying manufacturing jobs were dismissed and low wage service jobs were the resolution to the unemployment rate. The company tried solving the unemployment rate but was the contributor to poverty. The de-industrialization contributed to lack of jobs for highly qualified individuals. Retraining and education still doesn't guarantee great jobs, or an automatic jump out of poverty. Living standards and economic positions have been sliding downward.