Standard Deviatio... V Mathway Statisti... W Word Counter - Co... Pearson MyLabs a.. Project 2: Poverty in America Assignment Introduction: Around 50 million adults now live below the poverty line in America. Let's discuss this fact through the lenses of justice and economic distribution. Directions: Go to page 116 of the Shaw text and locate Case 3.3. entitled Poverty In America. Read the case several times and thoroughly answer the following six (6) questions: 1. Does the existence of poverty imply that our socio-economic system is unjust? Does the concentration of poverty in certain groups make it more unjust than it would be otherwise? 2. What are the causes of poverty? Are they structural or individual? How is one's answer to this question likely to affect one's view of the justice or injustice of poverty? 3. What moral obligation, if any, do we have individually and as a society to reduce poverty? What steps could be taken? What role should business play? 4. How would a utilitarian view the facts about poverty? What are the implications for our society of the concept of the declining utility of money? 5. How would a libertarian like Nozick view poverty in the United States? How plausible do you find the libertarian's preference for private charity over public assistance? 6. How would our economy be assessed from the point of view of Rawls's difference principle? Can it be plausibly maintained that, despite poverty, our system works to the greatest expected benefit of the least-advantaged members of society