Last year I went on a course, as part of that course we had to sum up what we thought of different groups in society, for police the group said racist, bigots, right wing. For Muslims the groups said fanatics, devout, backward. For single parents the groups said scroungers, stupid, uneducated. As I am a single parent this stung to say the least I work full time and do my best, I would consider myself …showed first 75 words of 250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 250 total…means being powerless it gives you little say in decisions relating to your life and you are also treated as a second class citizen this is the same whether you live in a inner-city estate in Birmingham or a small village in Ethiopia. To this effect poverty is a social problem and in our capitalist society it is a growing problem. The above stereotypes over simplifies the problem of poverty in a first world country.