. . "In the little book 'The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism', which studies how people fare through longitudinal data over the decade 1985-1994 in the USA, the Netherlands and Germany, one of the things they look at is the chances of a person from a 'privileged' social class (white males in the USA) who is well-off at the beginning of the decade of being poor by the end of it." . . .