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Poverty is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. The most common measure of poverty in the U.S. is the poverty threshold set by the U.S. government. This measure recognizes poverty as a lack of those goods and services commonly taken for granted by members of mainstream society. The official threshold is adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index.
A1~ ECONOMIC DEFINITION OF POVERTY. Introduction. It can be argued that much of the current, and widespread, disÂ­. satisfaction with anti-poverty policies is due to a failure to make an. explicit choice of a restrictive definition of poverty.