pov-er-ty / ˈpä-vər-tē
noun the state of having little to no money or possessions Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James A. Baldwin, 1924-1987 deficiency of necessary qualities If the incidence of disease depends on the poverty of the soil, it would seem that there must be something very wrong somewhere in the current methods of cotton growing; otherwise these diseases ought not to occur. from ‘The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture’ by Albert Howard, 1873-1947 scarcity It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. Barack Obama, 1961-