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Only the wilfully blind now deny that poverty exists in Britain and has been growing fast. The serious debate has moved on to other questions. Does it matter? And what can be done about it? I deal with the first of them in this chapter.
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John Hills, The Future of Welfare, York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1993, Chapter 3.
The data that follow were mainly gathered by Richard Wilkinson for Unfair Shares, Ilford, Barnardos, 1994
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Donnison, D. (1998). Does Poverty Matter?. In: Policies for a Just Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26058-4_2
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