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.
Atypical Behavior: behavior that deviates from the norms of society -- behavior seen as being different or weird not necessarily harmful to self or others, just deviant the definition most people in society use to define a behavior as being abnormal.typical Behavior: behavior that deviates from the norms of society -- behavior seen as being different or weird not necessarily harmful to self or others, just deviant the definition most people in society use to define a behavior as being abnormal.