The federal and state spending on social welfare programs in 2012 nearly came to $1 trillion as poverty moves through the economy like a fire.
Those hundreds of millions of people emerging from poverty, moving to cities from central China or Vietnam's Mekong Delta, began to consume.
But Miller's father had invested much of his money in the stock market, and when the crash came in 1929, the family was cast into comparative poverty, moving from their plush town house to a small house in Brooklyn.
Furthermore, as extreme poverty moves towards zero, the proportion of the world's poorest in fragile states will rise from one-third today to two-thirds in 2030 and the remainder will be living largely in stable, middle-income countries.
The study includes an index that seeks to broaden conventional measurements of poverty, moving beyond purely economic indicators to include education, health and access to services like electricity and sanitation.
"Would we feel comfortable overturning judgements like that?" The family, which lived in extreme poverty, moved between Shoreham and the fringes of London.
Great wealth, soul-destroying poverty, moving in parallel orbits, without ever really coming into contact.
After her father left, Kaylyn's family struggled in poverty, moving seven times in four years, trying to find an affordable place to stay.
If this was the whole story -- Tax Cuts, Poverty, Moving In, or the American Gulag -- I think it would be enough to conclude that Franklin's vision and the American middle class were not served by these policies.
