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Britain’s big squeeze: ‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019CEYLAN YEGINSU and LAETITIA VANCONComments Off

In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity, older people are feeling new constraints.