Talk:Poverty
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This article seems substandard to me. The definition of poverty seems poor (no pun intended). Insufficient means to live implies starving to death.
Let's distinguish between poverty in the sense of the line separating the middle class from those of lesser means -- and people dying from famine.
A few months back I tried to find a definition of poverty level, but hours on online searching (maybe I'm inefficient) got me hardly anywhere, which is embarassing for someone with my last name (poor). --Ed Poor
- In law, poverty is recognised, in most systems of developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour.
- I know the french have very specific laws on mitigating punishment for the 'poor' I'll see if I can find an 'expert' to help us on that one.--dgd
- In law, poverty is recognised, in most systems of developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour.
- It also takes a very materialist approach to poverty... for some poverty is a derth of the psychological and not the material.
What are factual means?
Why is Planet capitalized. Sounds sort of new age.
many societies employ social workers to fight poverty by a variety of methods ranging from moral persuasion to direct financial subsidy.
- Do they convince them they are not poor, or what?
- Excluding collective hypnosis, what precisely this refers to? G
- The political right considers poverty to be a choice. Hence the mantra,
- "Get a job."
A person living in this condition of poverty is said to be poor.
The poor becomes to live is a state of poverty because society has pressured them to be so. A family of limited resources living in a remote mountain village in a "third world" country like...example the Philippines...will easily classify to be "poor" by today's "first world" standard. They are not necessarily living in a state of poverty. But this same family, when overtaken by ubanization becomes impoverish when they are marginalized by society itself especially if their government is insensitive.
poverty cycle?
There is no mention of the poverty cycle playing a part in ... poverty. Or even formally stated, a "sociological" cause in causing poverty. Poverty breeds poverty in a quid pro quo economy. I just happened to request an elaboration be put here because the article on Anarcho-Communism needs it as it discusses the subject as a solution to solve poverty (because it links to a non-existent article named the poverty cycle). Now, if it was included in this article, I could simply change it, rather than having to create a toally new article. -- Natalinasmpf 20:46, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Relative and Absolute
there is no mention of relative and absolute poverty here. this needs a bit of tidying. and no mention of any other wikipedia pages under a "See Also".
Live Aid II
Should Live Aid II (http://live8live.com/) be mentioned?