DEGREES OF POVERTY ... i've often been poor ... mostly by my own inertia and my profound disinterest in work ... but i had never really thought about how poverty can be measured and "stratified" ...

Do you have a pot to piss in ? ... are you as poor as a church mouse ?

Can you tell the difference between desperation and destitution ?

Well, poverty is a way of life for more people than you might have realized.

About one in five British people live in poverty.

Thirty per-cent of British children live in poverty.

Here are three ways of looking at the bigger picture.

https://www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk/blog/2018/09/relative-absolute-poverty/

and 

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07096/SN07096.pdf

and 

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/minimum-income-standard-uk-2022

and this astonishing etymology of poverty ...

https://ht.ac.uk/category/?type=search&qsearch=poverty&word=poverty&label=&category=&oef=&oel=&startf=&startl=&endf=&endl=&currentf=&currentl=&year=&twoEdNew=&twoEdUpdated=&page=1#id=138438