Britain-Measuing-poverty---英国-衡量贫困.docxVIP

Britain?Measuring?poverty 英国 衡量贫困 The?end?of?the?line 贫困终止 The?government?sets?out?to?redefine?what?it?means?to?be?poor 政府着手重新定义贫穷 When?Seebohm?Rowntree,?a?chocolate-maker?and?pioneering?social?researcher,?began?measuringpoverty?in?York?in?1899,?heworked?out?the?minimum?needed?to?buy?enough?food?for?“physical?efficiency”.?In?1935,?when?he?repeated?the?study,?Rowntree?addedallowances?for?cigarettes,?newspapers?and?a?holiday.?By?1951?he?concluded?that?poverty?was?on?its?way?towards?being?eradicated,with?only?pockets?among?the?elderly?left,?and?stopped?counting. 1899年，当巧克力制造商和社会学家先驱的西伯姆·朗特