The poorest got a boost from the stimulus payments, which went away, and now they more than pay that back in inflation that isn’t going away.
Huge government checks doled out by Trump and Congress, with Biden’s vocal support.
Temporary poverty amelioration shows up in the stats, then the handout stops, but the price resets to the expanded monetary pool are just getting underway. They don’t play out instantly, and will be aggravated by the fact our deficits remain over a trillion dollars a year for the foreseeable future.
The net result is a big increase in federal debt and debt carrying costs. Those debt carrying costs are actually a wealth transfer to the cohort that owns the federal debt. Which doesn’t happen to be the poor or middle class.