Your image of what "poor" is exists in this country; it just manifests itself in different ways and is largely ignored by, well, just about everybody (who isn't

Your image of what "poor" is exists in this country; it just manifests itself in different ways and is largely ignored by, well, just about everybody (who isn't poor). I grew up in neighborhoods where, while not apparently starving as the person in your image, we were certainly undernourished and stressed in many other ways. What you "guess" with respect to "being poor" is, to be perfectly blunt, a guess made from apparent ignorance (not stupidity or intellectual ability; ignorance can be remedied by education). Setting your rather narrow and shallow understanding of what "poor" is aside, the subject of this article is poor by American standards, and at least the way I read it the point isn't "pity us because we're on food stamps" so much as it is that the attitude of "being poor ought to be an humiliating condition" is ingrained in America.