GETTING CURIOUS | When Did We Start To Demonize Poverty? with Mary O'Hara

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author Mary O'Hara returns to Getting Curious to discuss her reporting on poverty, her new book The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative, and her work reimagining how we talk about poverty with Project Twist-It. She and Jonathan discuss her own experience of childhood poverty, common misconceptions around poverty in the United States and the United Kingdom, and how we can start to see social services as springboards for success. You can find Mary O’Hara’s writing at MaryOHara.eu and in The Guardian. Follow her on Twitter @MaryOHara1, and learn more about The Shame Game here and Project Twist-It here. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Benes, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:13.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by my cats
0:15.6	and also joined on Zoom by the journalist and author Mary O'Hara
0:19.8	where I ask her,
0:21.2	when did we start to demonize poverty?
0:23.7	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Ben Ness,
0:28.6	and I'm so excited to introduce our guest this week,
0:32.0	Mary O'Hara returning writer, star, activist,
0:37.1	advocate, extraordinary. You really are just an incredible genius. If you are someone who has been listening to getting curious for some time, you will recognize this voice because she was our expert and updated on Brexit, which that we had had to go on getting curious like days before the Brexit vote.
0:56.4	So welcome back.
0:57.9	It's great to be here again, Jonathan.
1:00.6	So Matilda is at her first Getting Curious Recording, and she's really excited about it.
1:07.0	Okay.
1:08.0	So that's kind of fun.
1:09.0	Well, first of all, I definitely want to talk about how Brexit relates to your book and all of your incredible work,
1:16.6	you know, outside of Brexit that is what you're here to talk about, which is, you know, our
1:21.3	overlying question is what is poverty how do people come out of it
1:27.4	What causes poverty and so that's really what we're here to talk about in all of your work around that but just really quickly
1:36.9	Brexit three years later
1:40.3	Yeah in a nutshell three years later every I think everyone thought 2020 was going to be completely dominated by it, but of course it's vanished from sight.
1:48.0	It's still a problem because apparently it's still going to get done by the end of the year but I don't think many people see that truly happening.
1:56.0	It's crazy.
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