The New Poverty

by Stephen Armstrong

75 years after the Beveridge Report: The shocking extent of hardship in the UK

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786634651
• ISBN13: 9781786634658
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"