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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/11/i-have-not-been-poor
I find it amazing that an article like this would appear controversial to anyone (I presume it is). There's so much rhetoric about poverty and unemployment these days, that basic sociological concepts like material and cultural deprivation read like a revelation.