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  2. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    Absolute poverty, often synonymous with 'extreme poverty' or 'abject poverty', refers to a set standard which is consistent over time and between countries. This set standard usually refers to "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter ...

  3. Poverty threshold - Wikipedia

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    The term "absolute poverty" is also sometimes used as a synonym for extreme poverty. Absolute poverty is the absence of enough resources to secure basic life necessities. Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population). Based on World Bank data ranging from 1998 to 2018. [16]

  4. Measuring poverty - Wikipedia

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    The United States, in contrast, uses an absolute poverty measure. The US poverty line was created in 1963–64 and was based on the dollar costs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "economy food plan" multiplied by a factor of three. The multiplier was based on research showing that food costs then accounted for about one-third of money income.

  5. Extreme poverty - Wikipedia

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    The international poverty line is designed to stay constant over time, to allow comparisons between different years. It is therefore a measure of absolute poverty and is not measuring relative poverty. It is also not designed to capture how people view their own financial situation (known as the socially subjective poverty line). [23]

  6. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mink, Gwendolyn, and Alice O'Connor, eds. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (ABC-CLIO 2004). Patterson, James T. (2000) America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 2000) online. Prasad, Monica (2012). The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.

  7. Map: These US states have the highest rates of long-term poverty

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    For example, a low-income state like Mississippi — where the median income for an individual is the lowest in the country at $47,446 — also has the highest rate of persistent poverty at 24.4% ...

  8. The absolute income poverty rate for 65-year-olds rose by 14 percentage points, or nearly 100,000 people, to reach 24% by late 2020 according to the findings, funded by charitable foundation the ...

  9. Relative deprivation - Wikipedia

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    It is a term used in social sciences to describe feelings or measures of economic, political, or social deprivation that are relative rather than absolute. [3] The term is inextricably linked to the similar terms poverty and social exclusion. [5]