The poor are just people without enough money. But a 'culture of poverty' gives the affluent a reason to blame them for it
to read Barbara Ehrenreich's "The poor always with us, necessarily not us" published in: The Guardian, March 15, 2012, click on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/15/the-poor-always-with-us/print