The proportion of unemployed people who are counted as poor according to the relative poverty line has increased by around 20% since 2004. Tapio Salonen, professor of Social Work at Malmö University comments:
"- This is close to a direct effect of the policy pursued in Sweden throughout the 2000s, when we have rewarded those who have jobs and discredited those without work"
The work line clearly means that more poor unemployed people pay for the employment tax credit. It is also well in line with classical liberalism: all against all always.