Poor and rich are social strata in society. The social strata in society are not stagnant, meaning that every human being has hopes and opportunities to improve their social status. It is true that as you say, the poor only have basic sufficiency in life, the income they get is only used for food and other basic needs.
In my environment, rich and poor are seen from the amount of property and assets owned by each person, even though there are also those who only have a certain rank in government but do not have more valuable assets in life. But people like that are considered rich in my place even though they only eat from the salary given by the government every month.
But what you should know is that poverty also does not escape the attention of the government. Currently, quite a lot of funds from the government are revolving to help improve the economy of the poor in various sectors. One of them is the government providing scholarships for poor children and other forms of educational programs.
For government programs in an effort to empower the people's economy, I think it is very different in each country so that this cannot be assessed in just one country. But in general, the governments of most countries always pay attention to citizens who are still poor for the welfare of society through various sectors as you said, but for sectors that greatly affect economic development in a country are assistance in the form of capital disbursed by the government for the poor. other than education as you say it is.
So I think the poor have a chance to get out of that zone into an economically independent society. In my neighborhood, quite a lot of people who were once poor have now turned into economically strong communities by making the best possible use of government programs.
Well, this is what every citizen and government really wants because when people start to be independent with an affluent life, the country will look more prosperous with an economic sector that will develop gradually as long as the people can continue to work to increase their own income through their respective expertise.