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The shame of in-work poverty
A major report issued this week shows the extent of the Tories’ big lie that they are making work pay, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
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This week’s Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Monitoring of Poverty and Social Exclusion report showed the true scale of the human impact of six years of ideologically-driven austerity, following the Chancellor’s recent Autumn Statement which confirmed the economic difficulties we are now facing.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation in the report is that 7.4 million people in poverty are in working households, showing that despite all their false promises the Tories are not “making work pay.”
This means that more than half of those living in poverty (a total of 13.5 million people) are now in working households — a record high for in-work poverty, with the number of workers in poverty up 1.1 million since 2010/11. This figure includes 2.6 million children.
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