Poverty (n.) is a byproduct of the modern welfare state and diminished sense of social responsibility. Individuals become less willing to be held accountable for their own actions and, instead, turn to the government for protection.
Poverty (n.) is best measured relatively... namely as that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.
Poverty (n.) is largely derived from wrongheaded government policy.
Poverty (n.) is measured crudely by roughly estimating minimum expenditures on food, multiplying that number by three.
Poverty (n.) cannot be cured. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
Poverty (n.) is a thing there is no good way of measuring.