Thorghout history and still today there have been people who are unfortunate in the waorld. This will always be the case until the second coming of christ. That is why this issue is so profound today. Although this problem is not totally able to be fixed it should be as limited as possible. We should do all we can in order to help those less fortunate them us. This issue is so important that it is one of the seven pillars of ctholilc social justice. These are seven ideas that the church says you should think about and do in your everyday life. Out of those seven three of them have to do with the poor and therefore it must be important.
Many people and programs throughout history have taken up this call to help the poor and to try and limit those people considered poor. People such as mother theresa and Dorothy Day are two of these people who have taken up th call. In many of Day's works she talks of helping the poor. Reflections on Works, Where Are the Poor?, and Beyond Politics are three such works she has done. She constantly repeats in these works the importance of seeing the poor in your midst. And once you have noticed them then you must do something about it.
Mother Theresa showed an example of how to help the poor. This does not mean you have to do what she did and give up all your possesions and move to Africa to help the people there. What people have to take from her example is the heart she had. People can take that heart and help out with the organizations they have in the United States. Some of these are The United Way and The Catholic-Labor network. The idea and inspiration is what counts. It would be really helpful for everyperson to help out any of the good organization such as the ones listed above to help the poverty in the world.