Heh, Highly Fitting-

Laura over at Pursuing Holiness has a great post about "poverty" vs poverty.

"Poverty":

Like Nunez’ family, most of the people in even our relaxed classification of poverty are there because they are only working part time. The typical poor family with children is “supported” by an adult working only 16 hours per week. Three quarters of children living in poverty - most of whom have Playstations and cable TV along with their free school lunch - would not be classified as poor if just one adult in their household worked forty hours a week.

Real poverty would be...well, in an older post it is described as this:

Only about a third of poor households - around 12.5 million in a country of over 105 million households - experience conditions most of us would classify as “poverty” including intermittent food shortages, difficulty paying bills, and less access to medical care.

I quite agree.

I say it's highly fitting because my grandfather's dad and his brother came over with only $200 dollars between them-- it was the condition to immigrate into the US at the time: $100 in your hand as you walked through the gate. They worked hard and *advanced.*