Poverty
The issue of poverty is not simply assigned to the uneducated in a modern context but due to the escalating costs of housing, travel, and utilities, the lives of the middle and educated classes affected by lack of money are especially welcome in story
I Daniel Blake, the Cannes film festival award winner brings us the usual fare from director Ken Loach, this time dealing with the nasty nature of new welfare cuts and rules.
A man needing benefits for the first time tries to keep hold of his dignity after having a heart attack
The Boys from The Blackstuff, Alan Bleasdale’s drama set in the world of northern working class males follows the lives of a close knit community dealing with the prospect of life without secure work.
They are each of them inflicted with the problems of unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain
• The effects of the recession and the cuts backs on families and individuals not usually driven to desperation or mood swings/depression
• Stories about the impact of poor diet and nutrition forced by lack of funds
• The increasing need for food parcels and the stories behind it
• Single parenthood
• Larger families and their struggles to have the talented ones taken care of
We are especially looking for meritocratic, not necessarily socialist approaches to poverty and the inequalities it creates – more the waste of resources to take care of those with gifts and skills. The impact of a poor education on those that deserve better, especially in a large city
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