Were you ever in poverty?

[Anonymous]

Yes still am

Yes during childhood

Yes got out of it a little while ago

Nope

[strateguy632]

for most of my adult life i was below poverty line. earning minimum wage except a few jobs.

but recently lower class but not poor. i feel poor! but above poverty line. until after new york taxes. then i am really poor again.

[Kaneki05]

Story of my life though will say I'm living comfortably in poverty especially considering I'm getting a social housing flat next week for myself, UK does one thing right and that be social welfare though it has issues of course.

[Calyptomaniac]

I was pretty broke in college for quite a while, but I'd never call it poverty, no.

[strateguy632]

if your money went to pay housing and tuition then that is not poverty.

[emeraldsaphire]

I think so, Back in my early 20s I was living hand to mouth. It was rough

[BadApple69]

When I was a child my sister (who watched me while my mother worked double shifts). Used to make us tomato soup at least twice a week. That Was ketchup and hot water. Crackers would’ve been a nice bonus, but we never had any.

[Anonymous]

Arguably my parents were. My parents raised 5 of us on a cops salary. And i had a chronically ill sister. But i never went hungry and our house was fulilled with love. My parents did an AMAZING job.

[canamlusciouslad73]

No, but when my father was laid off from Ford of Canada, he worked as a slaughterhouse butcher for $40 Canadian a week from 1956 to his June 1963 recall to Ford.

[exitseven]

No, I was a little above the poverty line for a while but it never got that bad.

[TonyMetal___1986]

Yes, many times and other times i was like rich but the most i have been on the average side...

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Fortunately, no.

[NathanDavis]

I have not