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Poverty
Poverty is the absence of economic and material wealth which can negatively influence a person’s life. Poverty can be relative (compared with others in the same society or community) or absolute (poor measured against an international scale).
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Rental reform - no-fault evictions to be banned
17th May 2023
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20% of parents are spending less on books for their children
28th February 2023
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The Poverty Premium: How being poor costs more
30th September 2022
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TV recommendation - Broke: Britain's Debt Emergency (Dispatches)
23rd September 2022
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Sociology in the News: School uniforms logos could be scrapped in Wales
5th September 2022
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Sociology in the News: School trips could be axed
14th September 2022
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Black youth unemployment 'hits 35% in pandemic'
20th April 2021
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Does My Neighbourhood Determine My Future?
19th April 2021
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Low-traffic schemes benefit most-deprived Londoners, study finds
10th March 2021
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'A failure of society': Britain's slum housing crisis – in pictures
8th February 2021
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Nearly half of black UK households are living in poverty
7th July 2020
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Podcast Recommendation: Hometown - A Killing
8th July 2020
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Mapping inequality in the UK
13th December 2019
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Homelessness in the UK
5th December 2019
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America's Poor
20th November 2019
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Poverty Maps
5th November 2019
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UK Child Poverty Targets
18th April 2019
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Poverty in the USA
9th October 2018