<P> Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, however, a "rediscovery" of poverty took place, with various surveys showing that a substantial proportion of Britons were impoverished, with between 4% and 12% of the population estimated to be living below the Supplementary Benefits' scales . In 1969, Professor A. Atkinson stated that </P> <Dl> <Dd> "it seems fair to conclude that the proportion of the population with incomes below the National Assistance / Supplementary Benefits scale lies towards the upper end of the 4 - 9 per cent ." </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> "it seems fair to conclude that the proportion of the population with incomes below the National Assistance / Supplementary Benefits scale lies towards the upper end of the 4 - 9 per cent ." </Dd> <P> According to this definition, between 2 - 5 million Britons were trapped in poverty . In addition, some 2.6 million people were in receipt of Supplementary Benefits and therefore living on the poverty line . This meant that at least 10% of the population were in poverty at his time . Bad housing conditions also constituted a major cause of poverty in the postwar era . In the early Sixties, it was estimated that three million families lived in "slums, near slums on grossly overcrowded conditions," while a 1967 housing survey of England and Wales found that 11.7% of all dwellings were unfit . </P>

Which groups in society show the highest poverty rates