Poverty is theft
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation this week set out a radical new strategy to solve poverty. Ian Kirk-Smith reports.
The nineteenth century French radical Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously coined the slogan ‘property is theft’ in his book What is property? Or an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
Why not ‘Poverty is theft’? It is the theft of hope. It is the theft of dreams and the wonderful enthusiasm of youth. It is an appalling theft of human potential.
The scandal of increasingly high levels of inequality in British society and the intolerable pressure being placed on the poorest and most vulnerable to pay more for everyday goods and services were highlighted this week in an important new document launched by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF): We Can Solve Poverty In The UK.
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