All this week, Community Links’ LinksUK blog team are debating the way in which poverty is portrayed in the media. Richard has a guest contribution up there today, about the general public’s unusually punitive attitudes to poverty in the UK. If we really want to end poverty in this country, we are also going to have to deal with the way ordinary voters think about people living in poverty.
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