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A year like no other : life on a low income during COVID-19 /

Telling the stories of low-income families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic in the UK and offers key policy recommendations for change.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Patrick, Ruth (Social policy researcher) (Autor), Power, Maddy (Autor), Garthwaite, Kayleigh (Autor), Kaufman, Jim (Autor), Page, Geoff (Autor), Pybus, Katie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and artwork credits
  • Timeline: Charting a year in a pandemic
  • Voices for change
  • Introduction: A whisper in history: poverty, families and the pandemic
  • Britain enters lockdown
  • Summertime
  • Back to school?
  • Christmas in the pandemic
  • Winter lockdown: hard times get harder still
  • The Budget: counting the money we do not have
  • Conclusion: Our manifesto for change
  • Afterword: This is no way for anyone to have to live
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Index