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Laurie Taylor explores the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK and US. What are the solutions?

Poverty in the UK & US: Laurie Taylor talks to Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, whose latest study asks why the richest country on earth has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Also Elizabeth Jane Richards, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University, explores the way in which understandings of poverty have changed over time.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Mon 24 Apr 2023 00:15
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Book: Poverty, by America (Allen Lane)

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Book chapter: β€˜Poverty: the social problem of all time’ in Contemporary Social Problems in the UK: A Comprehensive Overview, edited byΜύ Selwyn Stanley (Routledge)

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  • Wed 19 Apr 2023 16:00
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  • Mon 24 Apr 2023 00:15
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