Before starting this course, I was not very sure who was considered poor and who was not. My idea of ​​poverty is linked to the starving children you see on television in third world countries and it never really occurred to me that poverty is also one of the biggest problems facing society faces in the world today. It is clear that poverty should be one of the top priorities of our world leaders and we should stop at nothing to end it as quickly as possible. In America, as the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the gap between the two is even greater here than anywhere else in the world. This course has improved my knowledge on the topic of poverty and I now understand how poverty is an important problem in the United States as well as from a global perspective. In the United States, poverty is a huge problem. Extreme poverty, or poverty experienced by people who live on less than a dollar a day, can be found among a wide variety of types of people. Children in the United States suffer greatly from poverty, which contributes to the problem itself and allows poverty to grow more quickly. People aged 18 to 64 as well as the elderly are affected by poverty everywhere. According to the 2012 US Census Bureau, “more than one in three poor people in 2011 were children” (US Census Bureau, 2012). This course showed me that poverty affects a wide variety of people in a large number of different places. Before this course, I did not know that the southern part of the United States was historically the part of the country that suffered the most from poverty, while the Midwest part fared better. I also... middle of paper ...... and other problems are getting worse. I answered yes to this question the first time, but upon reflection I understand that other issues also need to be considered. Overall, my responses to the survey questions were almost identical. However, after learning all the information provided by this course, my view of poverty changed dramatically. The impact of poverty in the United States as well as the rest of the world is a problem that absolutely must be taken seriously and eliminated. as quickly as possible. This course showed me a variety of different factors that contribute to the evolution of poverty and that need to be erased. Globalization and increasing levels of opportunity and education as well as increased monetary contributions could be a huge step forward towards eliminating global poverty..