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[quote=Anonymous]....What does poverty look like in the United States?

That's a really important question. If you travel to India, the poverty is absolute. You see people who literally have not a dime to their name. They literally have no food to eat. It's a little bit more complicated in America because even though the welfare system is not very good, we don't actually have mass starvation. So poverty in America is relative. And it's about a lack of basic necessities and a lack of security, so an uncertainty as to where you're going to get food, an uncertainty as to how you're going to pay your most elementary bills, and it's about a reliance on either very imperfect government institutions or very overwhelmed private charity.
What is one cause of poverty? 
I would say the rampant inequality. The bottom 20 percent of the workforce has seen a real income decline by double-digit amounts since the Nixon years. The 1 percent at the top, or the 0.1 percent – or if you go even higher, the 0.01 percent, the billionaires – have seen their income increase by not just 1, 2 or 3 percent, but by thousands of percent. What it means is political access is concentrated at the top, and as soon as that happens you end up with a political class that doesn't respond to the needs of ordinary people.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/09/05/what-poverty-looks-like-in-modern-america
Just is case anyone was wondering...[/quote]

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