Poverty Definitions Debate

Reminds me of the hullabaloo around the definition of the word poverty: https://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9465999/world-bank-poverty-lin...

The UN report on poverty in the US is more informative to me.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-povert...

There is such a thing as "absolute poverty" - rather than relative poverty [0]"a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services"I don't know, if the statistic for the USA is as high as the 13.5% cited by GP, but based on what I read about, and some small amount of personal ex

Surely you mean extreme poverty has been decreasing as a percentage of population, not in real numbers?

This framing is extremely suspect IMO; the article and figure 1 calls people in extreme poverty “poor” and people in poverty “vulnerable”. Extreme poverty is not just “poor”, extreme poverty is a line below which one cannot afford enough food to keep them alive, and doesn’t include housing or anything else. The “vulnerable” line is below $11/day, and some economists have argued the definition of global poverty should be higher than that. These dollar numbers are in adjusted PPP (purchasing

Is there absolute poverty in the US ?

Is that relative or absolute poverty?

The title for this is misleading. Poverty is defined as the inability to access basic human needs such as food, water, healthcare, education, clothing and shelter. While the relative purchasing power of American's is strong if they go to another country, the relative purchasing power of American's locally is severly diminished. As a result about 15% of Americans live below the UN defined poverty line. So what is "wealth" if you are in that 5% that surely are below the UN poverty line?

$1.9 per day is extreme poverty, but there are other kinds of poverty as well. I think the article linked in your citation explains it nicely:https://ourworldindata.org/poverty-at-higher-poverty-lines> But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t care about what is happening relative to higher poverty lines. The evidence shows that there is a clear and continuous relationship

unless you live in 'deep poverty' https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-deep-poverty