1. What factors can lead to poverty?

Some factors that relate to health care are being addicted to substances, No medicare, Mental Illness. If you can’t afford basic first aid.  Some factors that relate to education through poverty are expensive school fees, no money for school supplies, and the lunches and snacks you have to buy your kid. Some factors that relate to family structure and poverty are if you have a huge family, or if you need medications for a sick child or an ongoing sickness.

2. What circumstances can fuel long-term poverty?

Some circumstances that can fuel long-term poverty are things like addictions,  if you don’t have a job bringing in money, If you don’t have working parents, or if you have a huge family. A huge family can sometimes mean poverty because the more people in your family the more expensive the bills are for everything and that means you are left with less money which means poverty. It also depends on where you live and where you decide to go to college and what to study because whatever you study in college is on your resume and your workplace will look at that before hiring you to work there. Also if you grew up with not having working parents then you are going to be born into poverty and then it is up to you to turn your life around and end your circle of poverty.