Poverty, what are your experiences, and how have you, or how are you, currently, dealing with it?

Poverty can often be summed up in a few different ways, but there is clearly a line which establishes it, whether that is being homeless, or not making enough money at your job, and therefore struggle.
What are your experiences with it? Have you ever been homeless? What about welfare? Are you a parent having trouble making ends meet? Does the government help you? What about people with mental and physical disorders? What are the situations for that?
And students?
How do you all define what poverty is?
Those are some examples, you don’t have to follow these to the letter. I’m interested in any experiences with poverty. Not just being “poor”, but what about those who work with charity? What about overseas poverty? Tell all, yo. Opinions, experiences, anything else.