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What does poverty mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
  2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness
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People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery.
Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips.
In the midst of luxury, abundance, and indeed waste, what can be our proper response when confronted with the poverty Kapuscinski describes?
The mere accumulation of national wealth is not sufficient to deal with poverty as a health risk.
In one man is embodied the rise of black America from poverty and social exclusion to acceptance and eventual success on its own terms.
And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods.

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