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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0:47.0 | poverty, poverty, not a... |
0:50.0 | And loom is a saying all day, poverty, poverty. |
0:57.0 | Poverty Knox by Roy Harris. |
0:59.5 | Actually, I remember hearing that song at some right- on conference and having the ungenerous thought |
1:04.5 | that the word poverty might well be the appropriate term to describe the condition of the |
1:09.3 | 19th century mill workers whose plight is at the center of the song's lyrics, but was it as |
1:15.3 | appropriate in these modern times? Didn't we now have well gentler terms to |
1:20.6 | capture that unfortunate state of affairs, you know low-income, |
1:24.3 | disadvantage, struggling, needy. It was only as I was reading a book chapter entitled |
1:30.6 | Poverty, the Social Problem of Our Time, that I began to fully realize that the manner in which |
1:36.3 | poverty is defined, what it is called, has serious implications for the way that people who live in poverty are perceived and the way in |
1:44.9 | which they perceive themselves. Well that chapter appears in a book edited by Selwyn Stanley |
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