The Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-03-05, Page 51
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 • Lucknow Sentinel 5
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Poverty to be papers' year-long focus
Doug Edgar
We all know there's poverty in Grey -
Bruce.
Many of us have had a brush with it
personally at some point - or we will.
But what does it look like today?
We know it's the teen with little edu-
cation and few job prospects couch
surfing to keep off the street.
It's the single mother deciding which
bills to pay and which ones to let slide
as she juggles work and child care.
It's the person on social assistance
barely getting enough to survive.
It's the young family with two par-
ents working multiple part-time jobs
who still have to use a food bank.
It's the middle-aged man who finds
himself without a paycheque, perhaps
for the first time in decades, after the
job that has sustained his family is
suddenly gone.
It's the senior who sees rising costs tak-
ing
aking bigger and bigger bites out of her fixed
income every year and has to face the fact
the money will probably run out.
It's the family living on a concession
road effectively cut off from services
when their vehicle breaks down.
It's the homeless person who's
rolled into town looking for help and
perhaps a new start.
Those are just some of the faces of
poverty we regularly see. No doubt
there are others. Poverty has been with
us as long as people have come
together. It has changed over the years
and continues to change today.
What can we do about it as individ-
uals, as communities, as a society? Not
only what can we do, but what should
we do?
Before we can answer that question,
we have to bring it into the open.
The Sun Times and its allied weekly
newspapers in Grey -Bruce will soon
begin a long-term project with a group
of other newspapers in southern
Ontario to try to bring this discussion
more fully into the public forum.
Over the coming months you'll have
the opportunity to read stories, see vid-
eos and listen to discussions as part of
our ongoing Faces of Poverty project.
To do this we need your help. We
need people to share their
experiences and talk with-
out shame or reservation
about the highs and lows of
life being poor.
It would be foolish to
think such a project will
somehow "fix" poverty. But
it might be able to help.
Let the discussion begin.
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