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How one woman’s story of poverty evoked compassion at a literary festival  

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on November 6, 2014

I was speaking a little while ago at a literary festival, in a panel session on poverty and inequality with Canterbury University’s Bronwyn Hayward and broadcaster Wallace Chapman, when an audience member got up and spoke, with great emotion, about the struggle that she and her husband faced in making ends meet on his salary…

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