By 2030 167 million children will live in extreme poverty if the world doesn't take action to improve health and education! People suffer of food, water, education, jobs and more while the rich just take more and don't think about the people who suffer.People survive on 1.20$ a day and can nearly survive. Of the world’s 736 million extreme poor in 2015, 368 million—half of the total—lived in just 5 countries. Homeless people can get a disease called homelessness-as-a-lifestyle. This is a condition, and it can result in early death and bad health problems because they can’t afford health. “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”   — Plutarch, Greek historian. This is a big problem that can cause poverty is Lack of good jobs/job growth. When you don’t have a good job, you aren’t getting a good income.
Even in nations like the United States where many people have jobs but those  jobs aren’t paying enough money. Currently, more than 2 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home
 While over 800 million suffer from hunger. Hunger and water insecurity are also big reasons why people struggle to escape extreme poverty.

Conflict can cause poverty in several ways.

Large scale, continued violence that we see in places like Syria can grind society to a halt, destroy the framework and cause people to flee, forcing families to sell or leave behind all their belongings. In Syria.