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- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Persistent poverty in Britain
Britain is the world’s fifth richest country, yet poverty in Britain is rising. With paid work failing to reduce poverty for many, how can Britain best tackle this growing issue?
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- INTERVIEWS
John Bird MBE
John Bird, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Big Issue, talks about tackling poverty in Britain.
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Frank Field MP
Frank Field MP discusses the findings of the Indpendent Review on Poverty and Life Chances
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Julia Unwin CBE
Julia Unwin looks at the ways in which poverty persists in Britain today.
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Tackling persistent poverty in Britain
Why are there so many people living in poverty in Britain? How can…
Speaker biographies
Our panel including Frank Field MP, John Bird, Julia Unwin and Mark Easton
Interview with Kate Wareing, Oxfam
Kate Wareing, director of UK Poverty programme, Oxfam UK