Poverty has been rebranded as personal failure
The government absolves itself of guilt for the crisis its policies have produced by blaming disabled and poor people for their own difficulties
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Frances Ryan
Frances Ryan
The Guardian, Tuesday 22 April 2014 12.30 BST
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The Work Programme fails over 93% of disabled people,

Poverty is different now. It's been rebranded as personal failure. We can hardly forget that as political decisions are absolved and individual choices rebuked. What did you do to get yourself into this state? What are you failing to do to get yourself out of it? The phantom work-shy now includes people too sick to get out of bed in the morning.

When the healthy are lining the streets for food parcels, what on earth becomes of the rest? The answer isn't on front pages, it is hidden behind closed doors. Poverty and disability isolate individually, yet we are in a disability poverty crisis. That our own government is entrenching it, is something that should make each of us shudder.

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