Impoverished (adjective): reduced to poverty

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impoverished

“Those who are institutionalized  for criminal behavior or ill health, children and the impoverished have less privacy than those who are upstanding, healthy, and wealthy.”

I encountered this word while reading an article from class, “We want more Privacy, but Can’t Stop Sharing” by Kate Murphy. This is my first time encountering the word but I instantaneously assumed it had to with poverty.