Poverty
Laurie Taylor explores the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK and US.
Thinking Allowed · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
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