Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According to a
2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The new poor,
however, are an even larger group than these official figures suggest.
They are more often than not in work, living precariously and betrayed
by austerity policies that make affordable good quality housing, good
health and secure employment increasingly unimaginable. In The New
Poverty investigative journalist Stephen Armstrong travels across
Britain to tell the stories of those who are most vulnerable. It is the
story of an unreported Britain, abandoned by politicians and betrayed
by the retreat of the welfare state.
As benefit cuts continue
and in-work poverty soars, he asks what long-term impact this will have
on post-Brexit Britain and - on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
1942 Beveridge report - what we can do to stop the destruction of our
welfare state.
The New Poverty - Stephen Armstrong
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