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What is Poverty? Poverty
The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
State of being poor Lacking something
Medical Poverty Debility due to malnutrition
Beverly Cobb “A lot of charities here [Mt. Pleasant] are horrible
to the people that need them. I wanted to crawl under a table and disappear because of how I was treated at the Salvation Army.”
“I’ve been living under the poverty line for a lot of my life. From my birth in Louisiana to right now,” Cobb said. “My worst living situation was when I had to live in my car. I did it for about five years in Mt. Pleasant with my two daughters. We ate meals at the soup kitchen, got clothes from places like the Salvation Army and washed up in the Chip River.”
“Everything happens for a reason I believe. One of my daughters is in college now and she is studying to be a social worker. I know she will be the best one because she knows what it feels like to be homeless and hungry”.
CMU
Highest Poverty rate of
any Michigan county for
students
Population=21,332 of 70,617Loans
Tuition
Housing
Debt
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