BIRD’S WORDS The cost of keeping people poor shows a poverty of ideas

An enormous amount of energy goes into trying to give people in poverty some kind of better deal. I started The Big Issue to, as they say, ”cut the poor a bit of slack”. To improve the situation somewhat for people who had fallen into poverty.

Rishi Sunak’s spring statement provided the opportunity for a deluge of observers to show once again how government generally leaves the poorest among us out in the cold. I participated in a House of Lords debate on the issue in which most