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Crippled is a harrowing account of how austerity has impacted on millions of disabled people, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
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Crippled: Austerity and the Demonisation of Disabled People
by Frances Ryan
(Verso, £12.99)
IN GIVING a voice to millions of disabled people, Frances Ryan’s Crippled is urgent and essential reading.
It provides comprehensive statistical evidence demonstrating that disabled people have been disastrously and disproportionately affected by the last decade of public spending cuts, combined with interviews and case studies showing just how badly our society is failing.
They include people who have seen their benefits and support cut to such an extent that they are routinely having to choose between eating and heating or forced to sleep in their wheelchairs because they no longer qualify for a carer to help them get to bed.
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