Speaking as a person who's lived in poverty for such a long time, and as a social worker, poverty intersects so many different people for so many different reasons. My response is yes, but let's remain flexible and let's make this more explicit. People don't talk about poverty, or if they do talk about poverty it's in degrading ways. I think earmarking would help provide some legitimacy and would support something that's been dismissed for too long, where people living in poverty are degraded. At the same time, it has to remain flexible. Poverty is so broad, and intersects so many people from different walks of life. I think that's an important thing to consider.
On May 19th, 2016. See this statement in context.