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Critical literacy is about questioning social, political, and economic positions. It helps address injustice, like poverty, by enabling people to ask questions and advocate for change. This can involve looking at policies and education to ensure fair distribution of resources. Promoting critical thinking in classrooms from a young age can lead to better policies in the future. In social work, it's important to empower clients to challenge poverty and advocate for necessary changes. Critical literacy promotes critical thinking. Critical literacy is questioning or making sense of social, political, or economic positions. Poverty results from injustice and critical literacy allows the opportunity to question that injustice. This enables workers to ask questions about their conditions and allows others to advocate for the less fortunate. This can mean looking at policies and education on a state and regional level to push to make better decisions for fair resourcing and spread of money. While these changes take time, promoting critical thinking from a young age in the classroom allows room for more policies to be corrected in the future. Within social work, it is important to express to clients that they are not confined to a life of poverty and advocate for changes that can be made and continue the promotion of asking the hard questions.