You are right... As one comment says:
“I really wish we could come up with a different term for “poverty”. I have traveled to places with real poverty (e.g., Central Africa and Central America). By comparison, there is zero poverty in the US.
We would be a whole lot better off as a country if our “relatively poor” understood that they are blessed to live in a country where they are richer and better off than about 90% of the rest of the world’s population.”
And for the FYI of all, I’m the guy behind Commentopia... an ex Reader’s Digest editor (from the grand old RD days,} who tries his best to find both sides of an issue for a balanced view of so many vital issues challenging our nation.