Titlebook: Why the Poor Pay More; Frances Williams Book 1977 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1977 social science.socio

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Inflation,rtunities and hence their ability to get good value for money. In this chapter Chris Pond identifies differences in the rate of inflation experienced by different income groups in recent years, and shows that inflation has much more severe effects on people with low incomes than on those with higher ones.

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Conclusion,the everyday goods and services they buy, for the financial services they use, for legal, health and planning services, for education and welfare benefits. Only in housing could it be said that poor people get a generally good deal, and even here many poor consumers get the worst value for money found in the housing market.

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Legal Services,mparing what people pay with the services they get would almost inevitably lead to the conclusion that poor people get greater ‘value for money’ from the legal system than the better-off Legal services can however be regarded as services which ought to be equally available (and of equal standard) to

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Health Services, have worse health and more sickness than other groups; and yet they tend to get less or worse medical care than other groups. Because poor people have greater need for health services than others, consumer detriment cannot be overcome by equalising health services for different groups irrespective

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Education,eered towards the bright and academically able children who come predominantly from better-off homes. Even if the direction of resources towards clever children is accepted, there remains the consumer detriment resulting from the inability of children from poor families to corner their fair share of