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The new poverty / Stephen Armstrong.
Author
Armstrong, Stephen, 1966-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.
Description
xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HC260.P6 A76 2017
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Poverty
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Great Britain
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Working poor
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Great Britain
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Great Britain
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Economic conditions
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21st century
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Great Britain
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Social conditions
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21st century
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Summary note
"We are living in an age with unprecedented levels of poverty. Who are the new poor? And what can we do about it? Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest. They are more often than not in work, living precariously and betrayed by austerity policies that make affordable good quality housing, good health and secure employment increasingly unimaginable. In The New Poverty investigative journalist Stephen Armstrong travels across Britain to tell the stories of those who are most vulnerable. It is the story of an unreported Britain, abandoned by politicians and betrayed by the retreat of the welfare state. As benefit cuts continue and in-work poverty soars, he asks what long-term impact this will have on post-Brexit Britain and--on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1942 Beveridge report--what we can do to stop the destruction of our welfare state."--Amazon.com.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Introduction: the report
Want
The problem of age
Health: the rise of DIY dentistry
Idleness
The new full employment
Squalor
Unconnected
Ignorance
unreported
Divided kingdom
More than half the sky
Courage, faith and unity.
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ISBN
9781786634634 ((hardback))
1786634635 ((hardback))
9781786634658
1786634651
LCCN
2017023903
OCLC
973505044
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