I've been low-income my entire life and so was my own mother (typical struggling single mother), but I've always noticed the way poor people lack in the financial skills department. Especially they types who seem to have an inability to save money. As soon as they get the money their spending it down on beer, cigarettes, junkfood, and pricey gadgets. The kids end up breaking their new iPod or someone wrecks the car and expects to get more money so they can buy another one (reminds me of certain family members). They'll steal money from their families or anyone else and then have that spent in a matter of hours/days. I think I'll call it "drowning syndrome" that describes the way people can't seem to ever save money.
Honestly, I don't care for the word poor as I think "poor" is really a state of mind with a better word being low-income or lower class. "Poor" is for those who can never learn to live within their means. "Poor" is for those who grow up poor but never actually learn how to be poor. In the housing foreclosure epidemic we see people with 20k a year incomes buying 200k houses. Does that seem even mildly smart? No. The bents standing in the grocery line with WIC cards expect to drive a sports car yet they can't even afford basic necessities like food. Of course, our materialistic culture with its depraved attitude of narcissism makes everything worst. Along with the dominance of media by large corporations who sole purpose is to get the public to buy more.
Saving money won't make you a millionaire, but its a step towards living a better life if you are low-income.