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Food poverty: you think it doesn’t happen to normal people. The Guardian, 6 June.

June 6, 2013 8 Comments

Society, The Guardian, Thursday 6 June 2013. Food poverty: ‘You think it doesn’t happen to normal people’ Jack Monroe’s A Girl Called Jack blog vividly charts her life on the breadline, from visits to the pawn shop to living on a £10 a week food budget. Policy makers should take note. By Patrick Butler. The undoubted star turn at the […]

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