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Breadline Britain special report
Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 14:53 GMT 15:53 UK
A man who is stressed
I'm professional, single and poor
The number of single people living in poverty has risen by 300,000 since 1996. BBC News talks to one single person struggling to make ends meet.

Child on a swing Child poverty 'echoes' through life

A for sale sign First-time buyers on poverty 'knife-edge'

Then and now: A hospital's story

Breadline Britain
Take a journey through a century of dealing with poverty
How the way that poverty is measured has changed dramatically over the past centuryHard times
What living in poverty has meant during the past 100 years
Poor personPoverty in the UK
Who are Britain's 21st century poor?


TACKLING POVERTY

David Blunkett David Blunkett on welfare
David Blunkett on why the 1945 settlement that led to the setting up of the NHS still works today.
CURRENT CHALLENGES

Young people Young people in pensions firing line
Young Britons are at a far greater risk of living in retirement poverty than their parents.

POVERTY STORIES

York Minster York: the tale of two cities?
York looks an affluent city but does that mean the poverty chronicled in the early twentieth century has disappeared?

Lib Dem's on help for UK poor
Frank Field thinks 'unthinkable'
Malcolm Rifkind on welfare reform

The great food divide
The future of welfare reform
Fuel poverty is 'new social evil'

Poverty in numbers
On the Breadline Britain frontline
The battle for welfare

Breadline quiz
Do you know your essentials from your luxuries?
Man using megaphoneTackling poverty
Political leaders and experts on the future of the welfare state
States of welfare
How Britain compares to other rich countries



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