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"The Great UK Depression: A puzzle and possible resolution." Review of Economic Dynamics 5.1 (2002): 19–44. Eichengreen, Barry J., and Timothy J. Hatton, eds. Interwar unemployment in international perspective (Springer, 2012).
Although the two reports produced came from opposing political ideologies, there was some common ground between them: namely, a consensus that the Poor Law should not continue in its current form, a desire to standardise provision, and a recognition of structural failure as an element of the problem of involuntary poverty. [1]
Poverty within the UK is particularly concentrated in Wales. While the relative income-poverty rate for the UK stood at 16.8% in 2014, the same poverty rate for Wales stood at 23% in the same year. [95] [96] Poverty in Wales has remained in the 25% range, with only small dips throughout the last decade. [96]
Although the US agreed to cancel $20 million in Lend Lease debt, the UK was forced to obtain a $3.75 billion loan from the United States at 2% interest in December 1945. [218] The US/UK trade imbalance was perilously high, forcing the extension of rationing to lessen the imbalance and preserve precious US dollars for the servicing of loan ...
Numerous negative consequences have been attributed to benefit sanctions imposed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the UK Government department that runs the welfare state in the UK. These include "increased debt and rent arrears, food poverty, crime and worsening physical and mental health. [48]
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834–1914: From Chadwick to Booth (Routledge, 2015). Fraser, Derek. The evolution of the British welfare state: a history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution (2nd ed. 1984). Gilbert, Bentley B.
Marie Curie said the UK is facing a ‘cost-of-dying crisis,’ as people spend the end of their lives in poverty. More than 90,000 people ‘die in poverty in UK every year’ Skip to main content
1905 - Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09 set up by the outgoing Conservative government.; 1906 - The Liberal Government is elected and begins an ambitious programme of welfare reforms.