Goodcausetv interviews Tricia Zipfel Co Author of ‘Our Lives: Challenging Attitudes to Poverty in 2015′
In 1943 a group of women wrote a report ‘Our Towns’ which documented the problems of urban poverty and the way society made assumptions about those who were poor. The women challenged those assumptions and called for a national response to tackle poverty and called for support for those who were affected by it. Our Towns acted as a wake up call for the nation.
In 2015 another group of nine women authors with deep experience of working in poor communities across the country were prompted to revisit poverty in Britain. Their report published today in Newcastle upon Tyne, insists that the poor should not be blamed for poverty, particularly as many of the poor today have jobs and are doing all they can to support themselves and to contribute positively to society. Society today needs to come together to support those who have fallen on difficult times, not sanction them.......but Tricia explains it much better than me.
Download a copy of the report here
www.cvsnewcastle.org.uk/representinginfluencing/our-research