Article Critique

Introduction

The topic of discussion in the article titled "Why people still don't care about poverty, despite the
pandemic's hardships," which was written by Frances Koziar and published on March 9, 2022, is
people whose financial situations have changed as a result of the pandemic, and not people who
have always required assistance. Frances Koziar is a young retiree who struggles with her health
and is an advocate for social justice. She lives in Kingston, Ontario. She also writes, and her
work has been included in over seventy-five different literary magazines and other publications.
The research challenge that is being addressed is the relative nature of poverty. The problem of
poverty is a complicated one. There will always be those living in poverty. The game of life has
never been fair, and it never will be. These are all valid statements; the challenge is how we can
change our culture to be one that is more compassionate and understanding.

Summary
The article's abstract makes it quite obvious that this is not a straightforward problem to solve. In
point of fact, the first couple of paragraphs of the article are really difficult to understand. The
author begins by stating that a successful response to support of poor and vulnerable households
will require large additional monetary resources. However, any assistance package will need to
promptly reach both the existing poor and the new poor in order to be effective. New data
coming in from nations that have been impacted by COVID-19 reveals that the effects of the
virus on poverty and distribution are materializing quickly, with disastrous results. As a
consequence of this, a significant number of those newly classified as poor would most certainly
reside in urban areas, whereas rural regions, which have traditionally had lower average incomes
to begin with, will see their standard of living deteriorate further and their level of poverty
increase.

Critique

It appears from the experiences of the countries that have been afflicted by COVID-19 that the
incidence and effects of the virus can vary considerably over geography and over time, with
urban areas being the most severely affected initially. Because of the stringent health
containment measures, a substantial portion of economic activity has been forced to a standstill;
as a result, many urban residents who are poor and vulnerable no longer have a way to make a
livelihood.
The author also mentions that some individuals believe that the pandemic has increased
awareness of socioeconomic gaps; that as a result of it, talks about rent evictions, food banks,
and minimum income have become widespread across the country. And in a sense, you are
absolutely right. The author offers the example of people discussing about rent evictions because
people from upper-lower and middle-class backgrounds suddenly had to worry about them,
rather than the people who have always had to worry about them, in order to provide support for
this claim. According to Frances Koziar, this is "undesirable," and she writes that the government
is at least somewhat responsible for its actions by continuing to implement the policies.

The author does a good job of summing up such a complicated topic by saying that debates about
supporting food banks centered on the people who required them as a result of the pandemic,
rather than those who always have needed them. This is an accurate summary of the article.
Repeatedly, the focus has been on those whose financial circumstances have changed with the
pandemic, rather than those who have always needed support, and in spite of all of this purported
awareness, the fact that the majority of people do not know the first thing about chronic poverty,
and that people who live in poverty are shamed and blamed for our circumstances, has not
actually changed. And even though this is written out very well as an example, the author
ultimately confesses that there is no one single optimal design for an accountability agreement on
a physical level. This is despite the fact that the example has been laid out very well (T. Ibn-
Mohammed, 2020).

This is a solid idea for addressing the issue of societal poverty. It includes making assumptions
about how to estimate growth and how such growth would influence those who are poor, in
addition to additional issues such as how to quantify poverty for countries with old data or
without statistics at all. All of this points to the fact that it is difficult and fraught with a great
deal of uncertainty to make an accurate prediction of how much global poverty would worsen as
a result of COVID-19.

According to what is stated in the article, the coronavirus has completely changed the dynamic of
the lives of families with children. Many parents have been laid off from their jobs or had their
hours reduced, and many schools and childcare facilities have largely closed their doors. As a
result, those parents who still have jobs face the impossible task of balancing their work
responsibilities with those of caring for their children and educating their children at home.
These difficulties are especially severe for families living on a limited income. These are
excellent works by well-known authors and examples, and I believe that including them lends a
great deal of credibility to the overall text. These difficulties manifest themselves in a more
severe form in households with limited incomes (Sarah R. Davies, 2020). Research has indicated
that the livelihoods of low-income workers are more at risk than the livelihoods of those in
higher-paid professions. This is due to the fact that many individuals earning lower wages are
engaged in industries that have borne the brunt of the negative effects of the economic crisis
(Sophie Howes, 2020).

This article is predicated on the premise that the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic has cast into
stark perspective characteristics of contemporary cultures that are typically unseen and taken for
granted. I argue that the manners in which these subjects are instantiated through distinctive
repertoires of humor and emotional honesty, positivity, and gratitude are central to performances
of academic life. I identify themes of the disruption of academic work, of care and care practices,
and of critiques of injustice and inequity within academia. This analysis makes an additional
contribution to studies of COVID-19 as well as studies conducted by other publics, particularly
with regard to the ways in which the content is linked.

There is no doubt that addressing the public health consequences of COVID-19 is the top
priority; however, the nature of the equally crucial economic recovery efforts necessitates some
key questions as governments around the world introduce stimulus packages to aid in such
recovery endeavors. These questions come at a time when governments around the world are
introducing stimulus packages to assist in such recovery endeavors.

In light of the previous, however, the economic harm could be more long-lasting for the majority
of countries, and this is the true risk to families that have been pushed below the poverty line.
Some families have assets they can sell, aid from governments, relatives, and neighbors, and
other coping mechanisms that allow them to survive the hardships of living in poverty for brief
periods of time. However, this is not the case for all families. But poverty creates persistent
scars, such as hunger, susceptibility to disease, and lost schooling when it is sustained over
extended periods of time. For this reason, it is beneficial to take a look at the longer-term impact
that COVID-19 will have on poverty, notwithstanding all of the uncertainties that are inherent
with making economic estimates for a decade or longer (Homi Kharas, 2020).

Conclusion

In general, the first few paragraphs of this essay are not particularly clear, and it is not until the
second page that it becomes clear where the author is going with this piece. It requires a new
beginning that is shorter and more succinct in order to get more people interested and get them to
read the complete article. When the reader finally gets to the really good examples that are
pertinent to the day-to-day activities of a public administrator, a significant amount of the article
has already passed. In general, this is a good piece that has been written really effectively and
conveys an important message to public officials and organizations. When viewed in its entirety,
the work is pertinent and quite convincing in theory; but, it gets off to a sluggish start and never
lays out a concrete solution to handle this difficult topic. There is no doubt that addressing the
public health consequences of COVID-19 is the top priority; however, the nature of the equally
crucial economic recovery efforts necessitates some key questions as governments around the
world introduce stimulus packages to aid in such recovery endeavors. These questions come at a
time when governments around the world are introducing stimulus packages to assist in such
recovery endeavors.
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