The Pinch of Poverty

• Causes of poverty include lack of access to education, class disparities, and familial poverty.
• Poverty is portrayed in a negative light, as the artist shows poverty's negative effects on those who don't deserve it: children and a woman who looks victimized by society.
• He believes that poverty has negative effects on many different people- even women and children who've done nothing to deserve poverty feel its ill effects.
• The use of a rainy day is symbolic of how poverty removes joy and happiness from its victims. The children and mother are dressed in gray scale, also showing the sadness and dreariness that accompany poverty.