Even in earlier periods of supposed plenty, poverty existed in what was thought to be a land of opportunity.
Conservatives' ire is particularly directed at the spending for anti-poverty programs that were supposed to eliminate poverty, but were in fact meant to give the poorest a 'leg up' in their race to escape poverty.
While aid is supposed to reduce poverty, the conditions attached to it have often had the opposite result.
But if aid is supposed to attack poverty, it is rational to insist that its recipients do not attack each other.
If Sterelny and Hutto are right, the child's learning environment is richer than we might have supposed, and the poverty of stimulus argument for folk psychology is correspondingly weakened.
Indeed [I was] not so carried away by vainglorious folly that I, not thinking about the chains of my poverty, supposed that I could drink up even the single streamlet of any discipline, but when I was to have chosen some stream before the rest, by whose sweetest dew the thirst of my natural talents would be assuaged for the future, I longed to discern everything by experience.
He bragged that, in retaliation for his supposed life of poverty, he could kill more people than the 20 school kids and six adults who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012.
"Gentle songs full of melancholy and poverty, one supposed, and love unrequited," Plimpton wrote.
Sure Start was always burdened with problems it could never hope to solve - it was supposed to eliminate child poverty and social exclusion.
In a year when our economy is supposed to be growing, poverty in the UK has rarely been out of the headlines.
