Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent
Today’s story by Troy Aidan Sambajon shares a fascinating idea. It’s called relational poverty, and it happens when people lack meaningful connections and support from others. This can lead to literal poverty.
But the term seems to encompass so much more. What is at the heart of the crises we face? Could they survive if we had meaningful connections across social or political lines? Here we see the consequences of a poverty of trust – and the only path to a solution.
