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  2. Genteel poverty - Wikipedia

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    Genteel poverty is a state of poverty marked by one's connection or affectation towards a higher ("genteel") social class. [1] Those in genteel poverty are often people, possibly titled , who have fallen from wealth due to various circumstances.

  3. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    The definition of relative poverty varies from one country to another, or from one society to another. [2] Statistically, as of 2019, most of the world's population live in poverty: in PPP dollars, 85% of people live on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and 10% live on less than $1.90 per day. [3]

  4. Causes of poverty - Wikipedia

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    Marxists believe the structural nature of society (which is the cause of poverty) has to be changed to remedy poverty in society. [6] Conversely, critics to this perspective, like Milton Friedman postulated that under the socialist perspective, the suppression of individual rights and that of a free market economy can result in political ...

  5. Theories of poverty - Wikipedia

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    When poverty is prescribed agency, poverty becomes something that happens to people. Poverty absorbs people into itself and the people, in turn, become a part of poverty, devoid of their human characteristics. In the same way, poverty, according to Green, is viewed as an object in which all social relations (and persons involved) are obscured.

  6. Poverty, A Study of Town Life - Wikipedia

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    Poverty, A Study of Town Life is the first book by Seebohm Rowntree, a sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist, published in 1901.The study, widely considered a seminal work of sociology, details Rowntree's investigation of poverty in York, England and the subsequent implications that arise from the findings, in regard to the nature of poverty at the start of the twentieth ...

  7. Culture of poverty - Wikipedia

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    The culture of poverty emerges as a key concept in Michael Harrington's discussion of American poverty in The Other America. [6] For Harrington, the culture of poverty is a structural concept defined by social institutions of exclusion that create and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in America.

  8. Cost of poverty - Wikipedia

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    A cost of poverty, also known as a ghetto tax, [1] a poverty premium, [2] a cost of being poor, or the poor pay more, [3] is the phenomenon of people with lower incomes, particularly those living in low-income areas, incurring higher expenses, paying more not only in terms of money, but also in time, health, and opportunity costs.

  9. Poverty threshold - Wikipedia

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    The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline [1] is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. [2] The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for the average adult. [ 3 ]