Poverty

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Using human stories to track the scandalous increase in poverty and inequality which followed the birth of neoliberalism in the late 1970s. Two Story Files, one on the UK, the other on the rest of the world.

Poverty in the UK

Poverty in the UK - General
When Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979, 7% of UK children were growing up in poverty. By the time she and her successor, John Major, lost power in 1997, that figure had changed - to 30%. The basis of Nick Davies' book, Dark Heart. Five Story Files and seven individual stories.

'Poor People' series
A five part-series for The Guardian, trying to reveal the sheer scale of the UK's new poverty and the damage which it was inflicting on its victims.

'Poor Places' series
A four-part series for The Guardian, portraying the multiple impacts of the wave of poverty released by Mrs Thatcher's government.

Dark Heart stories
Stories which were run in various outlets to mark the publication of Nick Davies' book about UK poverty, Dark Heart.

'Life on the Poverty Line' series
A three-part series published by The Guardian reflecting the profound damage caused by poverty which persisted in the UK under the Labour government from 1997.

Poverty case histories
The stories of men, women and children who found themselves on the receiving end of the dramatic rise in poverty in the UK in the 1980s and 90s.

Global poverty

Global poverty - General
Revealing the lives of the poor in the US, Eastern Europe and Africa. One Story File and eight individual stories.

Migration
Europe's dirty secret - how the most civilised continent in the world inflicted misery, starvation and murder on vulnerable migrants.