Abstract: In designing for the poverty-strichen population, the new social security system objectively causes the deviation of employmentfrom security. This worsens their impoverishment, and this is even the direct cause of the poverty of a considerable part of residents. A weightier cause for the new urban impoverishment lies in the fact that the impoverished bear the costof reform during the system transformation, being dispossessed of the promise made by the government in the old system with meagre compensation and assisstance. So far as they are concerned, social security should not only carry out in a long term the redistribution of resources, but also make a new definition and distribution of rights and obligations, conferring them rights deprived and enabling them to have the chance to return to the mainstream society.

Key words: the new urban impoverishment, employment, security