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1832 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 14 Feb. [The system] has, in fact, made the ‘rich, richer, and the poor, poorer’.

1890 C. W. Haskins Argonauts of Calif. xxii. 320 The rich are getting richer whilst the poor are gittin' poorer.

1921 G. Kahn & R. B. Egan Ain't we got Fun (song) 5 There's nothing surer The rich get rich and the poor get children.

1972 Times 8 May 14/1 It is the old story of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, this time by courtesy of Dr Borlaug's miracle grains.

1973 Black Panther 31 Mar. C/1 County underassessment too, perpetuates the ‘rich get richer’ cycle in Oakland.

1997 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Apr. 8/4 Mr. Reich's umpteenth insistence that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting shafted.