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Morrisroe, Joe – National Literacy Trust, 2014
Since 2008, the financial crisis has had a profound social and economic impact on the UK's most vulnerable communities. Literacy influences individual capability in all spheres of life. In times of economic instability, low literacy makes individuals and communities more vulnerable to inequality, increasing the risk of social exclusion and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Financial Exigency, Risk
Blackburn, Clare – 1992
This book brings together sources of material on poverty and family health and makes it accessible to health and welfare teams working with families with young children. It draws on a wide range of disciplines and uses both "hard" and "soft" data to provide facts and figures and first-hand accounts of how poverty affects family…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Financial Resources