What is Poverty? What does it mean to be in poverty? Poverty, to me, in not having enough finances to be able to enjoy more than just the basics in life. Poverty is “just getting by” or not being able to get by without assistance from an outside source. Poverty is making just above the amount of money that is referred to, by the organizations, as being in poverty. I believe that the reasons people …showed first 75 words of 274 total…

…showed last 75 words of 274 total…you can buy with that dollar. The government often keeps people in poverty, according to Phillip Wong, by not allowing children to go to the schools they want to and not letting them get the education that they need to get higher-paying jobs which will keep them out of poverty. Regardless of what poverty means or how it’s come around, it is a real issue and we should make every effort to ratify it.