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What is The New Poverty about?
<b>75 years after the Beveridge Report: The shocking extent of hardship in the UK</b><p>Right now in the UK, 13 million people live in poverty; one in five children subsist below the poverty line. Figures such as these suggest devastating repercussions for health, education and life expectancy. The new poor, however, is an even larger group than these official statistics suggest, and its conditions are something new to our era. More often than not, these people are the working poor, living preca
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Armstrong
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786634665
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Economics, Political Science, Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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