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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm afraid I don't quite grasp the subtle difference between low-income and poor.  |
Neither do I. I recall watching some US political debate on television and hearing one of the candidates - for what, I don't remember - say something about "poor people" and then, as a second category, "lowest income people". I was so flabbergasted that "poor" no longer applied to those of lowest (say zero) income that I posted my outrage to Facebook.
We have "lower middle class" as a distinction already. Can't we keep "poor" to mean "doesn't have enough income to meet basic needs"? When I taught at a low income school, poor children were those who ate their only meal for free in the cafeteria and snuck some into their bookbag to take home for the adults who didn't have the luxury of free food from the cafeteria. The ones who had iPhones were usually in the first generation to have escaped poverty and weren't endowed with a legacy of good financial literacy.