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Poverty amidst plenty; some recent reflections
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Public concern over the well being of the economically disadvantaged in Western societies is continuously in flux, as is evident by the extent of media coverage and political debate on the subject of poverty at any given point in time. The need to pay greater attention to the issue resonates most in the public conscience when we are forced to face our own vulnerabilities and significance in the world in which we live. The increased attention to regional poverty in the USA in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina is one of the more recent examples of that ‘public conscience’ and its impact on the direction of poverty research currently being produced. Yet, despite the context, the general focus of that research is seemingly timeless.
Moving back from the present to the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the first well-known publications on poverty in the UK and the USA appeared,