“…Poverty and social exclusion have been the subjects of numerous empirical analyses [Rowentree 1901, Townsend 1979, Sen 1981, Atkinson 1987, Jarosz 2013, Tarkowska 2013, Galor et al 2014, Golinowska 2018, Łuczak and Kalinowski 2020 due to the fact that a significant part of society is still unable to satisfy its basic needs. So far the authors of publications have recognised the following main groups of people to be threatened by poverty: the unemployed [Stiglitz 2009, Kryńska and Kwiatkowski 2010, ILO 2016, Quy 2016, Healy 2017, people with flexible forms of employment, known as the precariat [Standing 2014], the disabled [Emerson 2007, Kowalczyk et al 2007, Golinowska and Sowa 2012, the poorly educated [Connelly et al 2014, Serneels andDercon 2014], elderly people [Kubicki 2013, Kałuża andSzukalski 2014], children [Warzywoda-Kruszyńska 2012, OECD 2015, UNICEF 2016, women [Lister 2007, European Commission 2017 and the rural population [Kalinowski and Łuczka-Bakuła 2007, Binder 2014, Kalinowski 2015.…”