You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.
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The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
I know what poverty is.
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.
I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
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