Rustic Rants: Thirty-six Dispatches from A Rural Poverty Truth Commission - Softcover

Webster, Jim

 
9798339446415: Rustic Rants: Thirty-six Dispatches from A Rural Poverty Truth Commission

Synopsis

Some irritating person once asked, ‘what if people who lived with poverty were involved in making decisions about tackling poverty?’ So somebody else set up a Poverty Truth Commission. You have two groups of commissioners, the community commissioners, who know poverty the hard way. They live it. The other group is the civic commissioners. They’re people from local authorities, government departments, the NHS etc. Ideally people who have the clout to make a difference.
And out of this mix hopefully we see changes.
And this brief book? Well it has been said that anything that doesn’t kill you leaves you with a dark sense of humour and a selection of unhealthy coping mechanisms. Has writing this been a coping mechanism? Does it display a dark sense of humour? Or is it an unwitting distillation of the thoughts and discussions of those good people who combined to form the South Lakes Poverty Truth Commission. Well if you read it, you might find out.

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