Topics: Economics and Personal Finances, Socioeconomic Class. 1  Richard Fry is a senior researcher focusing on economics and education at Pew Research Center. 2  Rakesh Kochhar is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
In the United States, the Census Bureau determines who is poor using an economic poverty measure, by calculating official poverty estimates using a set of dollar-value thresholds, or minimum amount of income needed to meet basic needs, that vary by family size and composition.
It would seem to me that tolerance toward disagreeable behavior is the most useful way of not raising issues regarding the emotional and mental well-being of any individual, it is shorthand silencing based on an abstract principal, that people should just be tolerant because that is what tolerant people do.