> But the poor people aren't getting poorer, they're getting richer too I'm not sure about the last fifty years, but I was referring to the last 30. Certainly

> But the poor people aren't getting poorer, they're getting richer too I'm not sure about the last fifty years, but I was referring to the last 30. Certainly in recent times, absolute poverty is greatly increasing. As more people have their welfare payments withdrawn, I think we can expect to see this increase to continue. In the UK we are dismantling the welfare state, which has resulted in over a million people using food banks annually. The poor are not getting richer.