Poverty is when people don't have enough money to buy food or clothes. Why?
Mom? What's poverty?
Come sit down let's talk about this.
These kids in my class were picking on another student saying she lives in poverty.
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Some people aren't as lucky as us, some people struggle for the basic things in life, but you should never be mean to someone for something they can't control.
I know. How does someone know they're poor anyways?
No we're not, we're middle class.
The government has a system of measuring how much money you make and that determines if you are considered poor
Oh. We're not poor right?
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Why do people live in poverty? Why don't they have enough money, and how do they live?
There's many reasons, like they don't have a job or they're disabled, or inflation happens and they don't make enough money.
They live by using programs the government funds to help them like Medicaid for healthcare or welfare and food stamps to help buy groceries.
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I'm glad they have resources to help them! I'm going to talk to the girl that was being picked on tomorrow and be her friend.