Tom Clark on fixing Britain’s poverty crisis

Tom Clark is a journalist, a contributing editor at Prospect and a fellow at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and was previously a leading writer at The Guardian for ten years.

His new book, Broke, is a collection of essays from today’s masters of social reportage on Britain’s accelerating poverty crisis. Broke ventures deep into the communities so often ignored by politicians and introduces us to those at the hardest end of the breadline, combining human stories and analysis for a practical and hopeful solution.

On this episode, we discuss some of the sobering stories at the heart of Broke, how poverty has changed in recent years and which three people he would give the book to in order to effect change.

Get your copy of Broke here:

www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/broke

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

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