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Contemporary Polish poverty in the majority of cases is new one, resulting from social and economic transformations, modernization processes and the system change. It is mainly the poverty of job market 'outcasts', capable of working yet redundant in the new conditions. The article attempts at answering the question of the role of state institutions in creating the new type of poverty in Poland as well as the state's responsibility for the generation of a broad category of 'transformation losers'-unprivileged and deprived of access to conveniences behind the conditions and quality of social existence. Starting from the issue of system transformation, the author analyses the problems of unemployment and poverty in the context of political changes undergoing in Poland.