Roz, I quite agree. I am no longer poor, but I once was, and I know the difference. We have to budget our money tightly, and we aren't free to spend on just any old thing we want, but that doesn't mean we are poor. People who can't work, have to wash their laundry in the bath tub because they can't even afford spare change for the laundromat, limit their eating to one package of ramen noodles a day because their food stamps don't last the month, live in subsidized housing where the landlord won't make basic repairs and they hear neighbors fighting or partying all hours of the night, and simply go without whatever health care isn't covered by state medicaid, now they're poor. That's where I used to be.