Many politicians and pundits aren’t good at talking about poverty, eh?

Many opinionated people do not know of poverty firsthand. They cast it in terms unrecognizable to the millions who know better. The shouters argue bitterly over what poverty is. So it goes.

With the recession, it is timely to talk about poverty. Many politicians and pundits are not very good at this.

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