Questions About Poverty

I have only a few questions about poverty. One of them is: Is there any way to break the cycle of poverty. When we were in class and we had to think about that, we came up with a few answers but they weren't very solid. Also, in some countries, do they have programs or companies that help impoverished peoples?

Looking online I found that the minimum Monthly wage in Jakarta was around Rp. 960,000. I thought this was very interesting considering that only amounts to under USD 1200 per year. If this was wage in any western country, it would not be enough to survive.

Poverty is definitely one of the hardest things (if not the hardest) thing to deal with in life. If you have no money, you have no food, no education, no shelter, no clothes, NOTHING. I think it would be emotionally depressing. It could also be enraging. Knowing that this is what you are going to live with the rest of your life.