What if most of our beliefs about poverty are wrong?

Apr 20, 2023

Social innovators show how assumptions and stereotypes of those living in poverty can shift Image: REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

Mauricio Miller

Founder & Managing Director, Center for Peer-driven Change

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The stereotypes that people facing poverty don’t help each other, that they are like “crabs in a boiling pot, pulling anyone back that tries to climb out” is wrong.

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