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Canadians must try to understand what it means to be poor
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
August 10, 2011
Knowing something –such as that many Canadians are poor –is one thing. Understanding the significance of being poor is quite another. If you can’t picture the suffering, you aren’t going to appreciate the imperative to help… the demeaning grind of poverty looks very different than it did in 18th century France, but poverty remains dispiriting and painful… how do we get to the point that the suffering around us caused by poverty becomes intolerable and we insist upon action? Our failure to reach that level of motivation is even more disconcerting now that the gap between rich and poor is growing…
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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