As we’d hoped, the release of Poverty in Sight: A Winnipeg Perspective has generated a lot of interest in the community. It has also generated some great comments that add to the conversation about poverty in Winnipeg.
Barry Hammond, who’s on the board of Agape Table, an inner-city soup kitchen, emailed to say that a large percentage of the people who access Agape Table’s services have or have had a mental and/or physical illness of some kind. In Barry’s experience, this “contrasts significantly” with what Urban Exchange survey respondents said when we asked them about the most significant things that lead to poverty (4.6% of respondents listed physical/mental illness/disability).
Jonah Levine emailed with a link to a video and some questions of his own: “Does this man’s assessment reveal truth? Prescribe a more effective method of ending poverty in this world? Maybe?”
Watch the video – what do you think?
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