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.
About quality - âlowâ, âbadâ and âpoorâ. up vote 1 down vote favorite. I need two words to describe the quality of some items-one word describing items of worse quality than the other. I read this question, Bad or Poor more severe. I'm uncertain if I fully agree with the answer about bad being worse than poor, since poor people still can be good though... Being economically poor and criminally bad, is something different than being of poor quality and bad quality.