The two concepts define poverty in ways which, explicitly or implicitly, call attention to people's physical, social and emotional welfare.

Each state defines poverty and, therefore, Medicaid eligibility.

He had come from Matamoros, Mexico, a town that defines poverty.

Depending on how one defines "work" and "poverty," a person may or may not be part of the working poor.

It doesn't matter where you pick the mark that defines poverty, more people are in poverty than before.

This only became clear when serious large-scale efforts to define and quantify poverty began in the 1880s.

Most countries of the world define poverty by income.

The World Bank defines poverty in absolute terms.

Since the 1960s, the United States Government has defined poverty in absolute terms.

The measures are contingent on how we conceive of and define poverty.