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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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28 minutes

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Mon 24 Apr 202300:15
BBC Radio 4

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Guests and Further Reading

Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University

Book: Poverty, by America (Allen Lane)

Elizabeth Jane Richards, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University

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

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  • Wed 19 Apr 202316:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 24 Apr 202300:15
    BBC Radio 4

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