Poverty & Social Security



Poverty & Social Security

Q1) Why are there still poor people in America half a century after the implementation of a system of social welfare programs that were designed to end poverty?

Poverty can be defined in several ways and can mean different things to people of different societies. Absolute poverty is to have inadequate funds to provide a minimum standard of living for oneself or one's family. Relative poverty is defined as doing worse off financially than the average person in a given society. Persons living in relative poverty may have no car, no television, and no toys ...