What Is the Difference Between Scarcity and Poverty

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What is the difference between scarcity and poverty?

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Definitions:

Brown V. Board

The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

Kitchen Debate

A series of informal exchanges in 1959 between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, highlighting the ideological differences between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Geneva Accords

The agreement reached in 1954 that temporarily divided Vietnam into North and South zones and called for national elections to reunify the country.

Consumer Culture

A social and economic order that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts, often defining success and happiness in terms of material possession.