User:Leosibb4/Poverty

Potentially offensive language when article refers to people experiencing poverty as "the poor". Potential alternatives could be something as simple as "poor people" as it re-humanizes the term and may allow for more focus to be allocated to more important parts of the article.

The term "low income" could also be a possibility but poverty is too complex in its many types and circumstances that referring to someone who is experiencing absolute poverty as "low income" mat be insensitive and selfish. It is important to transmit the real struggles of poverty and the term "low income" only serves to make people who read about the topic more comfortable which is not what the purpose of the article is. Something that is currently missing from the article are the efforts and culture created around poverty in Western and first world countries. I am specifically referring to individual donations by good Samaritans or Non-profit organizations like the Vancouver Food Bank or homeless shelters. I believe these examples could be added to the section titled "Poverty reduction" on the first clause about "Increasing The Supply of Basic Needs (Food and Other Goods)".

In addition, I believe that this section contains irrelevant information. I do not know how the industrial revolution is correlated to increasing the supply of basic needs, especially when its under the food section.