What to do, however, when a group advocates a "think yourself rich" social ethic, or blames poverty, illness and suffering on one's own spiritual shortcomings?

Your article blames lack of teachers and computers as well as poverty.

The proportion blaming poverty on 'circumstances' rather than fecklessness rose from 30 to 49 per cent between the two dates.

It is hardly news that we have had a middle and upper income class custom in the United States of blaming poverty on the poor.

Q. Do you blame poverty and ignorance?

When such cases gain wide attention, the public tends to blame alcohol or drugs or poverty as the provocation.

They blamed poverty or welfare largely on adverse social conditions that denied the poor the chance to work and support themselves.

In contrast, Mead was a political scientist who blamed poverty largely on a breakdown of public authority.

Since he was born a gentleman and has inherited a fortune, you can't blame poverty or the slums for making him a criminal.

To the left were those who blamed poverty and injustice.