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Poverty

Apr 20, 2023

28:17

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Origins of Poor Relief

2min

The History of Poverty

2min

The Economic Consequences of the Pandemic

2min

The Rise of the Welfare State

2min

The Neoliberal Approach to Poverty

2min

How to Deal With Poverty

3min

Why So Much Poverty in a Land of Abundance?

5min

How to Measure Poverty in the US

2min

10.

The Paradox of the Welfare State

5min

11.

The Obstacles to Eliminating Poverty in the States

3min

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