A letter a day to number 10. No 1,513
Friday 05 August 2016.
Dear Mrs May,
It is expensive being poor. Being poor comes at a premium cost, whether it is food, health, essential services, transport, life expectancy, being exploited as cheap labour, lack of choice, mental health and quality of life, the poor pay more.
Michael Gove is reported as saying that families were visiting food banks “often as a result of some decisions taken … which mean that they’re not best able to manage their finances.”
Others, like Baroness Jenkin, claim the poor don’t know how to cook.
It is an age old myth that the poor are responsible for poverty as if there are no structural causes that create and drive poverty.
It is 2016 and we still have a minimum wage, that is a wage less than the minimum required to live on. The minimum wage…
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