Poverty: ‘It’s a growing national conversation’

Poverty: ‘It’s a growing national conversation’

Scott Brison will be the main speaker at the public forum Let Them Eat Cake on Jan. 12. (STAFF) A dialogue on a guaranteed income and poverty, sponsored by the Annapolis Valley Regional Library, takes place Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Kentville Fire Hall.

“Let them eat cake” is a phrase usually attributed to Marie Antoinette and has been used for more than 250 years to demonstrate the gap between the rich and the poor. And for as long as the problems of poverty, food insecurity and the precarious future of work have been discussed, there have been […]

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