Recently on social media, a so-called influencer posted a picture of herself with the question, “name something money can’t buy?” I don’t know who the person was, following social media influencers is not my thing, but I thought the question was interesting. I did not check any of the responses, but I’m sure they covered things such as health, happiness and living life to the full et cetera - my initial response was “poverty”.
Sadly, poverty seems to have made a return especially to our daily news coverage. Not a day seems to go by without some mention or other of the cost-of-living crisis. I write this piece on the day Elsie’s plight of travelling on buses to keep warm is across the news. The reality, of course, is that poverty has never really gone away. It may drift out of our collective consciousness, but for a significant number of people; poverty is the most salient thing in their lives.
