pov·er·ty
/ˈpävərdē/
noun
the state of being extremely poor.
"thousands of families are living in abject poverty"
synonyms: penury, destitution, indigence, pennilessness, privation, deprivation, impoverishment, neediness, need, want, hardship, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, hand-to-mouth existence, beggary, pauperism, straitened circumstances, bankruptcy, insolvency, primary poverty, pauperdom
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Poverty
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