### people:

Poor people
* Many poor people contribute but die before they become old enough to collect benefits
  - define poverty as the inability to exercise control over their lives
  - earn their living from the environment
  - spend money on lottery tickets in hopes of finding a way out of poverty
* Most poor people are neither black nor brown
  - brown nor black
  - white, female, or brown
* Most poor people live in rural areas
  - thousands of dollars below the poverty line
  - work for pay their whole lives
* Some poor people spend as much as a third of their incomes to insure their cars.
* are able to lift themselves out of the poverty cycle.
* are at greater risk of being evicted from their apartment than are the non-poor
  - impairments and disabilities than better-off people
* are frequently unable to pay for housing, food, child care, health care, and education
  - housing, food, childcare, health care, and education
  - ill more often and die sooner
  - in poverty because they violate the commands of the Holy Scriptures
  - less likely to own cars
  - more fatalistic about death than people of means
* are more likely to be ill, yet least able to access health care
  - have poor health as well as poor living and working conditions
* are most dependent on law and order for safety and welfare
  - vulnerable to environmental problems
  - often unable to access a clean water supply
  - poor because they lack enough productive work
* are the most vulnerable
  - same as rich people
  - typically democracy's missing persons
  - vulnerable to natural and man-made risks
  - willing and able to borrow at market rates
* build homes of scraps of wood, metal, or other found materials.
* can have healthier ways of life.
* consider that they have the right to help make decisions about how water is managed.
* construct their learning by taking advantage of their own cultural tools.
* depend heavily on nature for their basic needs.
* die sooner than rich people.
* do save even when saving means having less for food, clothing, and housing.
* don t give money to the poor.
* exist in great numbers in our society.
* focus on survival.
* have a death rate as much as three times higher than that of other groups
  - an odd habit of getting hungry the next day
  - less money to support businesses and institutions
  - more health problems than rich people
  - the worst health problems
* know that their very survival depends on the resources controlled by others.
* scavenge bones.
* spend a higher percentage of their income on taxable items
  - less money online
  - their money locally
* starve to death because of lack of money for food.
* suffer most from the consequences of environmental damage.
* tend to come from poor families
  - live near their work, while better-off people can afford to move to the suburbs
  - suffer more than others from soil degradation
* use debt to buy things that make rich people richer
  - it in daily work and as means of transportation as well
  - more public money on health care, and have worse outcomes
+ Rainforest, Rainforests in danger
  * Settlers can get into the rain forests because modern machines have opened roads deep into the jungle. The roads are usuaslly built by businesses who want to cut down trees or dig up minerals in the forest. Governments build other roads for trade and to allow settlers into the forest. Poor people come into the forest by the thousands on the roads and take land to raise food. They burn off the trees and plants to make a field. Then they plant crops for food and to sell. All around them other farmers do the same, so there is no forest left to grow back.