The definition if absolute poverty in The Bottom Billion really struck me. I work in a small rural poor county, where poverty is very high. I actually have clients that are living in some of these situations. Not that medical services, education, sanitary water and other things aren’t available to them but that they lack the resources to get to those services. Most of my clients are without transportation, if they have medicaid, their insurance will transport them to their doctors appointment, however, they live several miles from the nearest grocery store so getting groceries for some is near impossible. While financial aid is available for education, again they cannot access because of lack of transportation. I work in a county that is very large but very rural without a public transit system. According to google maps Montcalm County is 708 square miles, with a population of only 63,105 as of 2013, that is 50,867 less people than in the entire city of Lansing. Since it is so rural, and poor, community resources are harder to come by than in larger communities.