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The UN, extreme poverty, austerity… and libraries

The UN, extreme poverty, austerity… and libraries

Last year, I wrote about how public libraries are increasingly providing advice and assistance for claimants of Universal Credit (UC) – the UK Government’s new framework for making social security benefits payments. I pointed out how this was starting to put pressure on some library services. A few days ago, this issue cropped up again, from an unexpected source, in the context of a United Nations-sponsored report […]

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