reason for liberal reforms - social campaigners Flashcards
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social campaigners
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B1: Charles Booth, a business man did not believe in extreme poverty in London - his report proved that poverty was worse than he heard and that 35% were in extreme poverty.
B2: Seebohm Rowntree was influenced by Charles Booth - and conducted a study into poverty into his home town in York and 30% were in extreme poverty.
F: the repeated reports across the country made it impossible to deny the existence of poverty or the extent of poverty - encouraging actions to fix this.
A: however, Liberal reforms did not actually solve all poverty problems an example including pensions being below the poverty line.