answer:I don’t think thats true, poverty has different levels in my opinion. Go to the slums of India where mothers send their little girls out to prostitute or they amputate a child’s limb just to send them out on the streets for sympathy and to collect money. I’ve been there and it is the saddest thing, it makes any poor neighborhood here in the US look filthy rich. We here in the US take care of our own and have the resources to, but there are some poor nations that couldn’t even if they tried or wanted to. Panama which I don’t think is considered 3rd world, has slums that make our “slums” or Ghettos look like Beverly Hills. Even our poorest people are “plump”. I suppose poverty though is a relative term, but to me there is definite levels of poverty, and no matter where you live in the US there is a whole lot worse out there.