They've never had it so goodYou'd never guess it from the constant wailing of the poverty lobby, but over the last half century the poor have got a whole lot richer.A standard measure of poverty is net income of the poorest 25% of households (specifically, the bottom quartile point). And as it happens, the Institute for Fiscal Studies have recently published a compilation of the official figures going back to 1961 (obviously it's far too...
