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STUDIES OF AMERICAN presidential elections show that poor people vote in fewer numbers than do more well-to-do members of the population. One reason, experts say, is that the poor believe their vote doesn't count for much because the government does so...

The federal government began measuring poverty in 1959. During the 1960s President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a national war on poverty. Researchers realized that very few statistical tools were available to measure the number of Americans who...

Scholarly as well as ideological debate has long centered around the most elementary questions concerning poverty. What is poverty? How can it be measured? What causes it? Is it a natural phenomenon or a symptom of a poorly ordered society? Though...

Continuing industrialization and technological advances benefit many (though not all) of the people in the developed countries, but the gap between the rich and poor countries is significant and increasing. In general, poverty deprives people of...

The elimination of world poverty, along with such concerns as the protection of the biosphere and the maintenance of peace, is generally counted among the global challenges facing humankind in the twenty-first century. In the mainstream account,...

The definition of poverty has attracted considerable political and social scientific controversy. However, the debate cannot be dismissed as being merely semantic. The social definition of poverty is crucial, first, because it determines to what...

A hut is a palace to the poor man. (Irish) A man without money is like a ship without sails. (Dutch) A moneyless man goes fast through the market. (Danish) A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend. (Spanish) A poor man has few acquaintances....

A dog won’t forsake its master because of poverty. (Chinese) An advantage of poverty: your relatives gain nothing by your death. (Yiddish) Hard is the path from poverty to renown. (Roman) Honest poverty is thinly sown. (French) If poverty be your...

A word which is frequently used in vocative expressions that express sympathy for the listener, or regret for something that has befallen him. The sympathy may be genuine, but it is often ironic. Absolute Beginners, by Colin MacInnes, has friendly use...

1 Low income per person. 2 The state of being below an arbitrary income level and regarded as poor by a particular society When a society upgrades what it regards as minimal sub sistence, it immediately statistically enlarges the poor sector of its...

No one is so hard upon the poor as the pauper who has come into power. (Danish) Nobody will give a pauper bread, but everybody will give him advice. (Armenian) The pauper hungers without noticing it....

A low standard of living; the conditions in which much radical adult education has found a great deal of...

People with income below what is needed to maintain a minimum standard of nutrition. See also: poverty,...

Poverty is the condition of lacking economic access to fundamental human needs such as food, shelter and safe drinking water. While some define poverty primarily in economic terms, others consider social and political arrangements to be intrinsic....