We were at least? The data on life expectancy may be looking to go up but not for people poor since 2008, or for people who were fairly wealthy.... There are probably links between poor people and impure drug use or bad testing for drugs (or maybe the rich just take different types), anyway poor people are more likely to be more obese and have other issues so we may well see a dip in life expectancy - just speculation for now and mostly based on Europe.

Extreme poverty in Africa is going down, however for Europe and the americas, there are more people below the poverty line than there were in 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States



European averages are around 17% also so both are doing awfully on that front.