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E.M.
Foster
says,
'We
are
not
concerned
with
the
very
poor.
They
are
unthinkable,
and
only
to
be
approached
by
the
statistician
or
the
poet.'
Generally,
or
in
common
parlance,
a
'poor'
is
that
person
who
does
not
have
sufficient
amount
of
money
to
purchase
food
to
keep
him
and
the
members
of
his
family
alive
and
the
necessary
clothing
and
a
shelter
in
the
form
of
a
house.
These
are
the
persons
who
do
not
have
a
proper
diet,
no
shelter
or
have
depleted
shelter,
live
in
insanitary
conditions,
and
have
a
lower
life
expectancy
than
the
majority
of
population.
Their
house
is
often
overcrowded.
Many
of
them
sleep
on
streets,
subways,
footpaths,
doorways
or
park
benches
under
the
open
sky.
In
extreme
winter,
they
sometimes
freeze
to
death
in
certain
areas.
In
rural
areas,
they
live
in
mud
thatched
small
huts
and
in
urban
areas
in
ghettos
(slums),
devoid
of
all
basic
utilities
water,
latrines,
bathrooms,
electricity,
etc.
Thus,
such
persons
must
be
defined
as
poor,
no
matter
whether
society
recognizes
their
poverty
or
not.
Most
poor
people
are
either
engaged
in
low
paying
jobs
or
are
without
jobs.
Some
are
too
ill
or
disabled
to
work
and
others
are
living
alone
(aged,
widowed),
who
cannot
earn
enough
to
support
themselves
and
their
children,
if
any.
The
poor
cannot
get
loans
for
self
employment.
They
cannot
seek
employment
where
work
is
available.
They
also
pay
more
for
most
of
what
they
buy.
Most
of
their
incomes,
if
any,
are
spent
on
food.
Moreover,
the
commodities
they
purchase
from
nearby
grocery
shop
are
often
of
low
quality,
adulterated
and
stale
devoid
of
any
nutritive
value.
The
situation
becomes
more
grim
when
the
earning
member
of
a
poor
family
loses
his/her
job
even
for
a
short
period
or
dies.
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