Ranked: What Poverty Means?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Poverty Means?

Poverty is a condition in which an individual(s) does not have many income security.  What that means and what to do about is what the following books try to explain.

If you are interested in these intriguing connections, you may also be interested in The Impact of Inequality

General

1. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
2. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Regional

1. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
2. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
3. On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman

Personal Experiences

1. Black Boy by Richard Wright
2. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
3. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

A Fictionalized Account

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith