Question

Maria Chen is a single mother in the U.S. who works 40 hours a week at a cleaning services company. However, according to the federal poverty guidelines on income requirements, she is unable to earn enough to support herself and her children. Maria is experiencing ______.

Answer 1

Maria is experiencing relative poverty.

Step-by-step explanation:

When some individuals of a shared society are experiencing relative poverty, they do not have the minimum necessary earnings to hold the expected living standard. This is the most common way to measure how much poverty there is in a country, and as societies and their members are different, relative poverty is not equal everywhere.