What is poverty
Poverty is a subject that can mean different things to different people. To me poverty means having no money for all the luxuries of life. In the article “What is Poverty?” Jo Goodwin Parker gives her ideas on what poverty is. She describes her experience of living in poverty as dark and oppressive. Jo tells of the hardships she and her three children must face daily due to their poverty. Her definition of poverty is so detailed and forceful that it conveys, even to those who have never known it, the nature of poverty. In her story "What is Poverty?" Jo Goodwin Parker is a poverty stricken, single mother of three. According to Parker, poverty has a certain sickening smell. Poverty stinks, it tires one out, is dirty and cold.