Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty

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Review ------ Fascinating and unsettling...a contribution and resource of inestimable value. (Political Quarterly)

'This book should be widely read and discussed especially by politicians and the media. It provides a panorama of food for thought on important issue of the day.' (SBE (The Society of Business Economists))

"Hard-hitting... researched and argued so carefully - and sensitively - that it is difficult to disagree" (Times Literary Supplement)

'Tells the stories of those who are voiceless. Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack forensically dissect poverty... All politicians should be made to read this book' (Independent)

a new book on poverty, Breadline Britain, deserves to be taken more seriously (City AM)

"I remember very clearly my sense of elation when I first saw the material that went into Mack and Lansley s enlightening, but disturbing research. Breadline Britain is a brilliant continuation of their deep engagement with the investigation of unacceptable poverty in Britain s otherwise prosperous economy." (Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics)

Inequality is the biggest challenge of our time. This important book exposes the real causes of poverty in modern Britain and makes a powerful case for the radical change we need to build a fairer and more equal society. (Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee)

"Careful and hard hitting. The book leaves our politicians no excuses." --(Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level) "Indispensable. Analytically sophisticated as well as viscerally stirring." --(David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain, 1945-51) "The big debates about social and economic policy in Western countries are shifting from concerns about poverty to a re that growing inequality is our fundamental problem. Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack, who have been working in this field for a generation, offer a massively convincing analysis of this problem and the policies it calls for." --(David Donnison, Emeritus Professor of Regional and Town Planning, University of Glasgow and former Chair of the Supplementary Benefits Commission) About the Author ---------------- Stewart Lansley is an economist and financial journalist. He has written extensively on poverty, wealth and inequality for spet journals as well as the Guardian, the Independent and the Observer. He lives in London. Joanna Mack works at the Open University and created the research resource www.poverty.ac.uk. They are both former award-winning television producers, and have collaborated on research and television programmes about poverty over the last thirty years. She lives in St Albans.