12 reasons why the UK economy is broken

How come our essential public services are foundering, our rivers flow with sewage and millions of our children go to bed hungry?

Each of these 12 images has a story to tell, of why, in one of the richest countries in the world, everything that matters is short of money.

Click below to view the images, or watch the video series in the next section.

So what's gone wrong?

So what's gone wrong?

So what's gone wrong?

ecomomic diagram about schooling
ecomomic diagram about schooling
economic diagram about boardroom excesses
economic diagram about boardroom excesses
economic diagram about lending money
economic diagram about lending money
economic diagram about lending money

Words' Worth project

Words have power, and the way we talk about the economy affects the way the economy works.

see the images

see the images

see the images

Behind the images a bigger story unfolds

The story we’ve been told – that wealth must accumulate at the top to "trickle down"– is completely bonkers.
The truth? When money flows, everybody thrives. It's time to change the story - to reclaim the economy for the many, not just the few.

The story we’ve been told – that wealth must accumulate at the top to "trickle down"– is completely bonkers. The truth? When money flows, everybody thrives. It's time to change the story - to reclaim the economy for the many, not just the few.

The story we’ve been told – that wealth must accumulate at the top to "trickle down"– is completely bonkers. The truth? When money flows, everybody thrives. It's time to change the story - to reclaim the economy for the many, not just the few.

Read the story

Read the story

Read the story

16 postcards, 12 from the main project and 4 from the Words' worth project.

16 illustrated cards, each with a short explanation and a link to this website.

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