2007-02-05 08:08:58 · 5 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You take Trump or Rockefeller and tell them they are cut to a budget of $2000 amonth and they would consider it poverty.
Then you have a simple farmer who has a mule and a cow and plows his fields and provides as best as he can for his family and people could say, "look at that poor, poor man". But if he is PROUD in his efforts and is able to survive from one year to the next, would he consider himself as one who is in poverty?
Poverty is found within the mind. People who lived through the Great Depression [what was so Great about it?] could give a much different description than would someone of today's time.
The gov't has a dollar based poverty level. Of course that is reported income dollars, not those made from selling contraband, etc.
A person who lives without any glimmer of HOPE, has poverty in his heart even if he sits in a million-dollar mansion.
2007-02-05 08:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by donkey hotay 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go to Chicago and u will see plenty of homeless skinny people. I'm from a farm small town area so I acturaly saw them whlie the rest of the chicagoans just walked right by without looking.
2007-02-05 16:19:06 · answer #2 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get in your car and drive to the urban areas of Anerica and just look. go to a homeless shelter and look. turn on your television at the news, and there is generally something about poverty if you are looking at the right network.
2007-02-05 16:23:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me, I live in a crawl space, and it's freezing. I'm in the library right now warming up!
2007-02-05 16:13:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ought to know this. There is planty of it everywhere you look.
2007-02-05 16:15:06 · answer #5 · answered by $0.02 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋