Wednesday's child: poverty and inequality | Seven days of social science research

People's lives change. We change house, we change jobs, we get married, we get divorced - that's life. Without this research, we wouldn't be able to understand these issues in such great detail, and therefore help design policy'

- Professor Stephen Jenkins, London School of Economics

Official #statistics of #poverty in the UK are based on annual 'snapshots', but are not capturing people's movement in and out of poverty over time - which shows a much higher number of people touched by poverty, argues Professor Stephen Jenkins at the London School of Economics.

The video is part of the ESRC Seven Days of social science #research series. Press play to learn more about Stephen's research and how social science can help us better understand the finer details around income inequality.

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