For many people, being poor feels more like an identity or series of experiences than a measure of income. You may feel poor if you've overdrawn your account at the grocery store or spent nights ...

People in poverty are said to be ‘socially excluded’. There is no one single definition of poverty. Most official definitions use relative income to measure the extent of poverty. The key UK ...

In Ireland, where I live now, energy poverty has a technical definition: if your household has to spend more than 10% of its income on energy, you are living in energy poverty. This is fairly ...