Poverty Report 1975. A Review of Policies and Problems in the Last Year.

Paperback. Whatever else divides them, Labour and Conservative, Trade Unions and employers, are all agreed that the poor should be protected against inflation. But in practice are they protected? This book shows what has actually happened to the old, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, the single-parent and large families. The first part of the book is an account of the effect on them of changes in wages, taxation, food subsidies, rents, rates and social benefits. The second part is a report on two surveys specially conducted for the book, which focus on two surveys specially conducted for the book, which focus on some of the sufferers from poverty. The third looks at British social policy, its weaknesses and its strengths, from another point of view, by means of a comparison with Germany. it shows how much the Common Market countries can learn from each other in the war against poverty. 207 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…