For people who live in poverty, the stigma they face and the shame it creates can be as devastating as the economic consequences

Ruth Lister is professor of social policy at Loughborough University; her new book, Poverty, is published by Polity Press

Please see a review of her new book in the Guardian on November 17 2004.

The first four lines of the text are as follows:

No more of 'the poor'
Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin sang about it; politicians pontificate about it; "the poor" are denied it. Respect - or rather disrespect - is key to understanding what poverty means to those experiencing it...

Read the entire article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1352913,00.html.