How to Deal With Poverty

A huge proportion of people who experience poverty in the UK these days are actually working. The quality and reliability of the way that's on offer has definitely changed over the last 10, 15 years. Matthew Desmond is author of Poverty by America - a book prefaced with this exemplary quotation from Tolstoy. We imagine that the sufferings of the poor are one thing and our life another. But we now face the dreadful reality that we are not separated. They are something that we have made.