Women are significantly more likely to experience poverty than men.
Yet in Tabitha's experience, poverty itself made work, religion and marriage double-edged.
In the modern experience, poverty is closely associated with unemployment or the absence of work.
Many experience poverty pay, job insecurity and poor working conditions - often not even having a desk.
The majority of people in the UK will experience poverty at least once in their lifetime.
More than half of Americans at some point in their lives will experience poverty.
When you experience poverty, you see the world a little differently.
By a slimmer margin, they're also more likely to experience poverty.
It seems over-simplistic to suggest that policy-makers must experience poverty before they can understand it, doesn't it?
In fact, the Urban Institute found that half of Americans will experience poverty at some point before they're 65.
They are inspired, if that is the right word, by experience: poverty, drought, foreign intervention, ethnic discrimination.
