poverty
Let an agent handle poverty by definition, measurement, data and policy neutrally, and route people facing hardship to benefits, food, housing and debt support first.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle poverty by definition, measurement, data and policy neutrally, and route people facing hardship to benefits, food, housing and debt support first.
The condition of lacking sufficient income or resources to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, heating, clothing and participation in society, measured as absolute or relative poverty, with forms such as food and energy poverty.
What it is for: Understanding and reducing deprivation.
It can be route people in hardship to support; explain poverty measures; find official poverty statistics; summarise policy debates with attribution.
Distinguishing features
Lack of resources for basic needs
Measured in several ways
Structural and individual causes
Subject of policy debate
What it looks like
Not a single object; seen in living conditions and statistics.
How it is recognised
Absolute and relative poverty lines
Food, fuel and housing poverty
Poverty of ideas is a figurative sense
Related models
is a kind of - category
is measured by - measure
is addressed by - policy
is related to - concept
In practice
Families and kinds
absolute poverty
relative poverty
food poverty
energy and fuel poverty
child poverty
Standards and regulation
UN Sustainable Development Goal 1
National social security law
EU at-risk-of-poverty indicators
Failure modes and hazards
Stigmatising language
Missing urgent needs
Partisan framing
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.poverty
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Help Urgent needs.
People come first.
Urgent
Food and shelter.
Urgent
Urgent needs.
- Is the person without food, heating or shelter right now? boundary
- Which emergency food, housing or crisis services apply here? action
Benefits
Entitlements.
Benefits
Benefits.
- Which benefits or free advice services might help, according to official sources? provenance
- How can eligibility be checked? action
Measurement Data.
Measures differ.
Measure
Poverty lines.
Measure
Poverty measures.
- Which poverty measure is used, absolute or relative? definition
- How is it defined? provenance
Data
Statistics.
Data
Statistics.
- What do official statistics show, and for which year? measurement
- Which agency publishes them? provenance
Causes Research.
Causes are debated.
Research
Evidence.
Research
Evidence on causes.
- What does research identify as drivers of poverty here? provenance
- How strong is the evidence? boundary
Policy
Debate.
Policy
Policy debate.
- What policies are proposed, and by whom? provenance
- Are views attributed rather than endorsed? boundary
Language Respect.
Language matters.
Dignity
Non-stigmatising.
Dignity
Dignified language.
- Does the language avoid stigma and blame? boundary
- Is it person-first? boundary
Voices
Lived experience.
Voices
Lived experience.
- Are people with lived experience of poverty represented? boundary
- Which organisations amplify them? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should poverty types be separate entries?
- How should support services be localised?
- How should measures be compared?