Incidence of Poverty in Australia
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the notion that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer" gained increasing public and media attention. Often, different conclusions have been reached depending on how poverty is measured. It is argued that Australia's middle class is shrinking, and while the majority of those living in poverty are probably not becoming poorer in absolute terms, they have become more numerous]]. It has also been argued that those in the bottom 5% of income earners in Australia had, in fact, become poorer over the past decade.
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