The phrase "suffer from poverty" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or a group of people who face economic hardship. For example, "Millions of people around the world suffer from poverty every day."
Families in rural areas in particular suffer from poverty and a lack of basic services.
We suffer from poverty, failing schools, gangs, drug abuse, but we do have one great resource – our land and water..
Despite some progress, Newark remains pocked with vacant lots and empty storefronts, and continues to suffer from poverty, unemployment and crime.
A 2013 study in the US found that trans people are far more likely to suffer from poverty and unemployment, and research in Britain has uncovered similar findings.
As Hong Kong prospered and grew as a trading hub, China, closed off from the outside, continued to suffer from poverty, famine and political oppression.
"Cheney grew up in an environment that has not put him in contact with tens of millions of people who live in big cities, who suffer from poverty," said John D. Deardourff, a Republican strategist and long-time Cheney admirer.
Areas of Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and many other cities also suffered from poverty and hunger crises.
"Right now the Lebanese community suffers from poverty – there are 500,000 Lebanese in unemployment.
After the city was burned by Union forces, however, he suffered from poverty and chronic ill health.
After his military service Hazare began a rural development project in Ralegan Siddhi, which suffered from poverty, drought, unemployment, and crime.
Ms Batmanghelidjh founded it in 1996 because she believed that family policies and social services were failing children who suffered from poverty, abuse or trauma – and often all three.
