Being poor today means worrying about an entirely different, and much more comfortable, set of issues. I'm not sure you have a full appreciation of the extent

Being poor today means worrying about an entirely different, and much more comfortable, set of issues. I'm not sure you have a full appreciation of the extent of poverty in contemporary U.S... The official US Government definition of poverty is (according to Wikipedia): The "absolute poverty line" is the threshold below which families or individuals are considered to be lacking the resources to meet the basic needs for healthy living; having insufficient income to provide the food, shelter and clothing needed to preserve health. Wikipedia claims that in 2008, 40 million people (13%) met that definition.