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Book Review — The Invisible Lines Of Poverty

Annelise Lords
Balanced Growth
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4 min readJan 12, 2025

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Can you see your poverty? What will you do about it when you do?

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Does poverty have an invisible line? That’s my first thought from the title. But after carefully examining the lives and lifestyles of people I know worldwide, I see an invisible line. I know and live among many humans who aren’t aware that they are poor. Many humans contribute to their poverty through their thoughts and actions.

Our decisions are our lives, and our lives are our decisions. How we live will determine our poverty, failure, success, or wealth. Unbelievably, you have a choice!

Can you see your poverty? What will you do about it when you do?

Poverty is pain for me. I don’t like pain, so I find the source and fight to eliminate or slow down its cycle. It has become a personal and significant fight for me. I can only take myself out of poverty and slow down its cycle. It begins with my actions, choices, decisions, and how I live.

Poverty has a different meaning for everyone. It also has various stages.

This book explains poverty from many different perspectives and points of view from a diverse group of people. Poverty doesn’t discriminate, as you will hear how different races, people, and cultures explain how they have tasted, lived, and breathed poverty. Also, how…

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