There's mental poverty and ecomonical poverty.
Mental poverty comes from a person who has no aspirations in life, a person who isn't useful for his community or himself, someone who life to make everyones life miserable as his, and those people aren't necessarily poor in their finances.
And ecomonical poverty when people don't produce the minimun amount of money needed to have a confortable life, like a nice place to sleep or warm water.