I'm with Graeme on this issue, who argues against grouping people who live
in poverty into different categories. 

When this is done, there emerges a distinction between the deserving and
undeserving poor, those whose poverty matters and, by stint of being
excluded or left uncategorized, those whose poverty doesn't - in which case,
it isn't POVERTY that becomes the issue but WHO is in poverty.

Those in poverty all share something in common: poverty. What's the point of
dividing them into seniors, children, youth, 'families' (is a household of
one a family?), unless it's to study them or separate the wheat from the chaff? 

The list in one post of the kinds of organizations that work with Campaign
2000 (recent immigrants, people with disAbilities, Aboriginal people)
doesn't include organizations that only represent, say, people with
disAbility X or immigrants from country P or certain first nations people
and not others. 

There may be circumstances in which it makes sense to divide a larger group
of people into a smaller one, if the issue has to do with the people, not
the systemically-caused conditions that they confront. The people who live
in poverty shouldn't be the focus; the systemic causes of poverty should.

Ocean, WISE Coordinator.
http://www.wise-bc.org/

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