Image DAY 30 SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY

Poverty

LIGHTING THE DARKNESS

Poverty (lack) is the extreme opposite of wealth (abundance). Often portrayed as a lack of property, housing, opportunities, and education, defining poverty in a social context falls into the realm of socially acceptable parameters. These are basic parameters centered around an acceptable amount of money and possessions but also communal services like sanitation, water, transportation, and communication. Individual moments of poverty, while disarming and uncomfortable, are quite different from the social issue of poverty.

One of the more interesting definitions of poverty ...

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