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  • How to Tackle Poverty with Co-Produced Activism

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  • Action on Poverty in the UK

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book tackles poverty and policy issues in the UK by discussing successful projects and practices, across lots of short chapters. The first section provides a brief history overview of poverty in the UK over the past two hundred years and discusses the question of why the UK, as a wealthy western nation, still has a poverty issue. It discusses various vulnerable groups and contextual factors ... Leer más

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  • Socially Distanced Activism

    Voices of Lived Experience of Poverty During COVID-19

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    Series series Short Guides
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    Series series Education (R0)
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    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
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