Poverty vs Unemployment - What's the difference?
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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
The state of having no job; joblessness.
The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.
The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.
(countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.
(countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
As nouns the difference between poverty and unemployment
is that poverty is the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need while unemployment is the state of having no job; joblessness.poverty
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(en-noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty' line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the '''poverty''' barrier. But '''poverty'''’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own ' poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
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* See alsounemployment
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(IPA: /?n.?m?pl??.m?nt /)- Unemployment made Jack depressed.
- Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.
- Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.
- All unemployments , seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.
- Until them his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numberous unemployments , and drug use.