dec 21, 1901 - Rountree Report
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Rountree's report which was entitled 'Poverty: a study of town life' showed that 28% of people living in York lived below the poverty line (which he carefully calculated using social-scientific methods).He argued for the poverty cycle and that poverty was a result of low wages rather than their own faults.
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Date:
dec 21, 1901
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~ 123 years ago