Archbishop Sentamu wrote a good article in the Yorkshire Post on Saturday about poverty. I do like him but he missed one point I think "poverty" is a state of mind, given some minimums.
Look at this on the BBC
£150 a week enough? Well it depends. What do you define as necessities? Some people now regard a mobile phone as their "human right".
When I was unemployed and we had little money we did without things. No sky TV, no TV licence. No mobile etc. etc.
The only thing is the Government should make it possible to get a job! Living on benefits is NOT an alternative. But when people have no real chance its a spiral down. They get desperate and the rules go out we get thieving etc. and a "couldn't care less" attitude. They want to take because how else are they to get anything. I can see this.
However at one time even POOR people were honest and decent. Where have we gone wrong. Giving people money the answer.
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