Question

What is a strong and clear thesis statement about poverty in the US?

Here is my intro to my essay but not sure if thesis (last sentence is good)

Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is much more than just not having enough money. It can be not having a job that pays more than minimum wage, those living under a single parent household, or those whose head of the household is unemployed. It is fear for the future and basically living one day at a time or paycheck to paycheck. Not to mention, when poor people are excluded or labeled as being a certain way or having certain negative tendencies within a society, in the end it can lead to damaging consequences for society. In other words, we all pay the price for poverty. Something needs to be done to help the poor get out of poverty and improve our economy and society in the United States.

Answer 1

                                    Poverty refers to a pervasive condition in an economy where its subjects are unable to obtain basic necessities of life like access to food, water and shelter. They lack sufficient income to own these possessions. From the great depression of 1930’s to the national Poverty war of 1960’s and the depression of 2008, the poverty in US is definitive in itself. Poverty is a social evil which has remained incompatible till date. Although the definitions of poverty differs in different economies, the basic concept remain the same. With the entire globe starving despite of having good economic potential, the alleviation of poverty should remain the focus for future. For the US in particular, with almost 50 million people being considered impoverished and the poverty levels remaining stagnant for many years together, a proper and directed system has to be generated to shift the focus to attaining poverty eradication along with the economic development.