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Laurie Taylor explores the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK and US.

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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