This strategy has less of an impact, and probably less appeal, for someone who is rich than someone who is poor.
There is a gap between rich and poor that is wideneing.
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But for any conservative party to find itself in the position of having to insist it is the party of ordinary people, not just the rich, is pretty poor.
Although absolute levels of poverty have dipped, the gulf between rich and poor is still widening.
In Brazil, for example, the income gap between rich and poor is vast.
Pixacao emerged in the 1980s in Sao Paulo, a sprawling city of 20 million people where the division between rich and poor is vast.
There is, though, a bigger problem that exists regardless of the gap between rich and poor, but is made starker as a result of it: pure, sheer poverty.
But the spread between the rich and poor teams is dramatic.
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The wage gap between rich and poor countries is far wider than it was a century ago, during the great age of migration from Europe to America.
Today, the factories are gone, the average citizen earns more than the average European, and the gap between the rich and the poor is vast and widening.
This study looked at the world as a whole, but the scientists say that it does show that the "digital divide" between rich and poor countries is growing.
If it were easy to become rich we all would be, but as the rich and poor alike know intimately, getting rich is surely glorious, but also very difficult.
As one of the nuns often reminded my mother during her years in Catholic high school, it is just as easy to marry a rich man as it is to marry a poor man.
And the poor are indeed getting rich. and it is those very factories, that very offshoring of manufacturing, which has enabled the poor to get rich.
Carbon-rich worlds contrast sharply with the Earth, whose interior is relatively poor in that element but rich in oxygen.
Rich States, Poor States is authored by some leading authorities on economic growth: Arthur B.
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The aggregate long-term gain for rich and poor countries alike is likely to be far bigger than the simple arithmetic would suggest.
In most cities, rich or poor, it is the less well off who are most at risk from floods and natural disasters.
And, most patriarchal though it may sound, almost misogynistic, one way for the poorer to make the leap from poor to rich is by marrying up.
Latin America in particular now has an income inequality between the rich and the poor that is actually narrowing as social programs pull people out of poverty and into the middle class.
And although China is still a poor country, it is also a rich country.
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According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.
Yet, wrestling is practiced in countries rich and poor, in dictatorships and democracies.
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Brotherhood is strengthened, the rich never prosper at the expense of the poor and social justice is thus achieved.
And the chasm between the rich and the poor in America is wide.
The evidence, as shown by Rich States, Poor States, is voluminous and empirical.
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The gap between the rich world and the poor one is still at its most glaring in the young.
As usual, courage and cowardice is distributed among the rich and poor, the learned and unlearned, in a haphazard manner.
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