My Personal Definition of Poverty

My personal definition of poverty is difficult to sum up into one sentence. I think poverty means that an individual(s)lives below the given poverty level for their specific state. Additionally, in my opinion, to live in poverty means the person is living without the basic means to survive under normal conditions, such as, education, a home, food, health care and so on. If one does not have the income to be able to obtain the necessary resources for survival, for themselves and their family, is what the definition of poverty means to me.