‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside https://nyti.ms/30gNznK

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.
The New York Times World Rural Areas, Elderly, Buses, Hospitals, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics and Government, Layoffs and Job Reductions
By CEYLAN YEGINSU and LAETITIA VANCON from NYT World
https://nyti.ms/30gNznK