Absolute poverty is like what you see in some countries of the third world. People not getting enough to eat. Not getting clean water, not getting health services or basic education. Not having somewhere decent to live. Relative poverty is having enough to eat, a place to sleep, clean water, basic health care and basic education. In the United States the most common it is relative poverty, because according to the threshold poverty a person in poverty if it is not making more than $12,071. That relative poverty, because with that among of money you still have a great access for food, education and sanity. It is also relative in Africa, because when they determine if a person is rich o poor there are basing it on economic income, it is based
