Q.State whether True or False, with reason: "A fully employed person can never be classified as poor."

A person can work full-time and still earn too little to cross the poverty line — this is called the 'working poor.'

This statement is False. A person can be fully employed and still be classified as poor — this is the case of the "working poor": for example, a marginal farmer or a low-paid casual labourer may work every single day, yet earn income so low (because the occupation itself has low productivity/wages) that their household still falls below the poverty line. Unemployment is one important CAUSE of poverty, but poverty is fundamentally about income/consumption falling short of a minimum standard — however that shortfall ar …