The working poor, such as a family of four earning a household total of $40,000.
Will GM feed the world's poor?Such questions have been asked up and down Britain.
Worse, many supposed champions of the poor, such as Oxfam, reinforce this mercantilist mindset.
Previously, states were required to cover only specific groups of the poor, such as pregnant women.
Democrats taunted Republicans for making Medicare cuts, but stayed away from issues that affect poor, such as food stamps.
Some of the fresh revenues should be directed to measures that help the poor, such as pre-kindergarten education.
Their policies are otiose, since there are better ways to help the poor, such as direct cash transfers.
For the poor, such as Yi Yi Cho – who ekes out a living from a snack stall in Rangoon's Ahlone neighbourhood – Obama's arrival means a better economic future.
Businesses that provide low-cost but innovative goods and services for the poor, such as solar lighting, can sometimes be seen as too risky by traditional investors.
Favourable views of the poor, such as Ken Loach's, can make the impecunious life appear cosier than that of the miserably moneyed.
However, as the bulk of this sum supplements the income of the working poor, such a strategy may contradict the Conservatives' long-running pledge to make work pay.
