Poor

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104834
- info:lc/authorities/sh85104834
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85104834#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Disadvantaged, Economically
- Economically disadvantaged
- Impoverished people
- Low-income people
- Pauperism
- Poor--Economic conditions
- Poor, The
- Poor people
Broader Terms
- Persons
- Social classes
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
- Poverty
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11954980t
Sources
- found: United States. National Commission for Employment Policy. Coordinating federal assistance programs for the economically disadvantaged, 1991.
- found: Bowman, W. Evaluating JTPA programs for economically disadvantaged adults, 1993.
- found: Hennepin (Poor people)
- found: American Heritage dict., 4th. ed., 2000 (poor: noun, people with little or no wealth and possessions considered as a group)
- found: Encarta World English dict., 1999 (poor: noun, people who are poor; people who lack money or material possessions)
- found: Random House dict., 2nd ed., 1987 (poor: noun, poor persons collectively)
LC Classification
- HV4023-HV4470.7
Change Notes
- 2000-04-10: new
- 2006-10-20: revised

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