Life Of Poor People

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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. The poor have no assets to protect them from the collapse of their precarious financial situation. They thus have hand-to-mouth existence at such times.

The nature of poverty has undergone considerable change over the years. Who the poor are today is quite different from those called poor in an earlier period. In the 19th century and even more than half of the 20th century, people living in villages (in India about 70 per cent of the population ...

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