Merriam-Webster defines poverty as ‘the state of being poor.’ While this definition seems simple enough, defining poverty as it applies to our world in 2015 is not quite so cut and dry.

Both these approaches have useful, distinct stories to tell us about poverty in America. One point they agree on, though, is that safety net programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

The relative poverty definition - which is measured both before and after housing costs - refers to people living in households with income below 60% of the country's median average figure.

By definition alone, the concept of poverty is pretty vague. That’s why there are different ways of measuring poverty. Two of the most frequent ways of defining poverty are absolute and relative.

By contrast, only 5.3 percent of Norwegian kids currently meet this definition of poverty. ... But UNICEF's relative poverty measure is still useful in that economies are relative, too.

The above map gives a comparative sense of the data. The blue countries have less than 10 percent of its children below UNICEF's relative poverty line, with the red countries approaching 25 percent.

Even after controlling for geographic variability, the study found weak correlations between the measurement approaches, indicating that the discrepancies were not simply due to regional differences.

5. Relative poverty is not poverty. Wrong. No child should be left behind. A paper last year from the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange, by Peter Saunders, argued that the dictionary definition of ...

Some use the relative poverty standard, for example, which defines 20 percent with the lowest income in society as poor, regardless of economic and price conditions. The World Bank defines those ...

There are two definitions of poverty: absolute poverty and relative poverty. The absolute poverty indicates the bare minimum threshold acceptable for living, while for relative poverty the cut-off is ...

The relative poverty definition - which is measured both before and after housing costs - refers to people living in households with income below 60% of the country's median average figure.