It's worse than poverty.
Living the life of poverty
there are aproximately 150000 people living in poverty in haiti.
Poverty rate is simply the number of people who have a low income, whereas poverty level or poverty threshold is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country. Persay your country said the standard of living should only cost $100 a month, if you made $105 a month then you would be apart of the poverty rate, because you qualify within that adequate standard of living, whereas people who could only make $75 a month would be below the poverty level because they could not live within the means of the adequate standard of living.
As of 2006, an estimated 17.8% of the population was living in poverty.
Who ever said poverty was great?
Yes, there are poor people living in poverty in the UK.
Yes, poverty still exists around the world with billions of people still living in poverty.
There are people living in poverty in all countries of the world.
Anybody living in poverty that lives below the poverty line.
25% by wikipedia source
As of 2012, the total figure for the entire state was close to 20%. Included in these poverty statistics are certain demographic groups that are having the most problems: 13% of senior citizens are living in poverty; the child poverty rate is 27%; the percentage of women living in poverty is 21%. Also, 40% of single-parent families with children are living below the poverty line.