Tag: George Orwell
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Do Poor People Waste Money More Than Anyone Else?
Ever since I first started working in social housing, there’s been one trope that’s never really gone away. Poor people waste money. I was only a week into my first job when I was told that tenants kept spending money on satellite TV and we should ‘stop them’ for their own good. I’ve heard it […]
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Top-Down Approaches Hit The Poorest First and Worst
The cost of lockdowns, poor energy policy and new sustainability initiatives are conspiring to hit the poorest first and worst.
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Why We Stigmatize The Poor And How To Fight It
Stigma functions as a form of power which is why we need to treat it seriously. When it is left unchallenged it can lead to the exploitation, control or exclusion of others. More positively, stigma is not a one way street -it can be understood, tackled, and reversed.
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Moving Beyond Command And Control
The natural reaction of the rule maker when people start breaking the rules is not to redesign them, or seek to understand why, but to issue yet more rules.
Paul Taylor 