Meanwhile, with the coming of globalization and the knowledge economy, with winner-take-all and loser-lose-all, there has been a growing number of people washed out of the middle class and falling into the circle of the near poor. These are the so-called "new poor."
而隨著全球化、知識經濟時代來臨，贏者全贏、輸者全輸，從中產階級被淘汰，落入近貧圈者大量增加，這些人則是所謂的新貧者（new poor）。