What is poverty?
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When we think about poverty, many of us recall TV images from the developing world: of famine, of shanty towns, or of children dying from preventable diseases. Yet this is clearly not what we observe in the UK.
So is there any poverty in the UK?
Peter Townsend, the sociologist who did so much to advance our understanding of poverty and its relationship to wider society, and was also one of the founders of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), certainly thought so. In 1979 Townsend defined ...
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