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Mary O'Hara

Mary O'Hara

Mary O’Hara is an award-winning writer, editor, author, producer, researcher and a Community Living columnist.
Woman at US welfare counter

Mary O’Hara: the UK and US are taking remarkably similar routes

Palace of Westminster, and White House

Red austerity in the UK… and in the US

Cabinet meeting of Labour government

Mary O’Hara: Austerity 2.0 is on its way, courtesy of Labour

President Trump signing an executive order in the Oval Office

Mary O’Hara: the fragility of hard-won progress is all too clear

Harris and Walz at convention

Mary O’Hara: the teenager who stole the US election stage

Austerity Bites by Mary O'Hara

Austerity proves brutal

Judith Heumann

Mary O’Hara: having laws in place hasn’t stopped the scandals

Hand holding payment card

Mary O’Hara: sick note ‘moral mission’ blames the weakest

Silhouette of man in prison cell

Mary O’Hara: the often overlooked population within our prisons

Waitress taking order outside

Mary O’Hara: poor pay and access to jobs should not be the norm

Man holding 'Save Medicaid' sign outside US Capitol

Mary O’Hara: vigilance needed to maintain disability funding

President Joe Biden

Mary O’Hara: contrast lays bare the values of two governments

Statue of Liberty

Mary O’Hara: Introducing lessons from America

Group outside protesting at cuts

Mary O’Hara: Cuts are a choice, not a necessity

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