Define Poverty

Most of us would say that a homeless person is diagnosed with a mental illness, no job, no marketable skills and bank account is not "bad." Is the label still applies if the person who wins a lottery prize of $ 1,000,000?
What is a doctor, fresh from the medical faculty, the $ 200,000 in debt, no savings and a residence permit, which paid $ 40,000 a year-long hours of hard work? This is also an example of poverty?
This is an aspiring writer "poor" if you want to blame a brand new degree in humanities from a prestigious university, $ 100,000, a minimum wage job have to sell during the day and no history of books? And the fellow writers, who have the same income, but has no debt and higher education?
We are much better in the number of poor people, they are identified. That makes no sense, and explains why decades of programs to fight poverty have made little progress in effectively combating poverty.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2.6 million Americans are poorer in 2010 than in 2009. That brought the poverty rate of 15.1 percent of Americans, the highest figure since 1993. (1)
Critics of the official poverty rate, based on comparing the cost of food for the receipts show that ignores many important aspects of the budget, including state aid is not in cash, such as food stamps and non-food expenditures, and outside medical costs for transportation and child care . Several alternative measures have been created, but no one has yet taken hold.
I think that the approach of poverty in the wrong direction. Most definitions of poverty focus on the circumstances of a person - the amount of money a person has, or upon the amount of income a person, compared to some reference point.
I think not change to poverty as a human condition with the speed and ease with the circumstances. A poor man, in my opinion, is a good way, it can not do it alone, or conservation and management of resources.
Not surprisingly, the efforts in the fight against poverty, not end when you are just money or goods. When the hand of a poor man a check, you still have a poor, only one has the money now. The Chinese understand if the adage about the difference between giving a man a fish, created, teach him to fish.
If we measure poverty, in line with equity or pursuant to a single fiscal year is the winner of the lottery richer than the homeless young doctor, an aspiring writer and minimum wage workers. It has indeed been in the past two and a part of the 15.1 percent of the population will be officially classified as poor.
But I believe that the mentally ill, the homeless, the poorest group. Earn $ 1000000 can temporarily change the circumstances of that person, but will not change their state. You do not need special financial knowledge and untreated illness, disability, winner of the lottery is likely to quickly lose unexpected return to the previous situation.
The minimum wage for workers who have no chance or an opportunity to improve their economic situation, he is also a poor man in my book. However, the aspiring writer working the same job the same wage - despite the fact that the writer has debts of $ 100 000.