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...world's wealthiest nations. Lately social groups, trade unions and left-leaning political parties have brought the poverty problem to public attention. But coherent statistics are hard to come by. Because the country has historically had so few poor, "we have no tradition of gathering data on poverty," admits St?phane Fleury, a researcher at the Federal Statistical Office. "We know how many bees there are in Switzerland, but not how many poor people." But according to figures from Swiss Labor Assistance, a workers' rights organization partly funded by the government and trade unions, some 535,000 people...