Poverty

==== Secondary poverty ====
{{Main|Secondary poverty}}
Secondary poverty refers to those that earn enough income to not be impoverished, but who spend their income on unnecessary pleasures, such as [[alcoholic beverage]]s, thus placing them below it in practice.<ref>{{cite book|title=Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living|last=Townsend|first=Peter|publisher=University of California Press|year=1979|isbn=978-0-520-03976-6|page=565|language=en}}</ref> In 18th- and 19th-century [[Great Britain]], the practice of [[temperance movement|temperance]] among [[Methodist]]s, as well as their rejection of [[Gambling#Religious|gambling]], allowed them to eliminate secondary poverty and accumulate capital.<ref name="Swatos1998">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Religion and Society|last=Swatos|first=William H.|publisher=Rowman Altamira|year=1998|isbn=978-0-7619-8956-1|page=385|language=en}}</ref> Factors that contribute to secondary poverty includes but are not limited to: alcohol, gambling, tobacco and drugs. [[Substance abuse]] means that the poor typically spend about 2% of their income educating their children but larger percentages of alcohol and tobacco (for example, 6% in Indonesia and 8% in Mexico).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://economics.mit.edu/files/530|title=The economic lives of the poor|publisher=MIT|date=October 2006|access-date=1 March 2013|archive-date=23 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523002625/http://economics.mit.edu/files/530|url-status=live}}</ref>