yetanothersusan 's review for:

The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative by Mary O'Hara

4.0

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Excellent look at how the poor are portrayed and villainized in the US and UK. This otherness has enabled the decimation of support in both countries to be striped bare, while blaming the victims. Like anyone would choose to go without basic necessities? Ms. O'Hara hopes to turn the narrative around to facilitate kinder programs that actually provide constructive assistance.