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In-work poverty rise due to benefit cuts for low-wage earners, says think tank
THE TORIES’ ongoing cuts to in-work benefits has seen a rise in the number of working-age adults living in relative poverty, the Resolution Foundation revealed today.
The think tank found that the rate has risen to almost seven in 10 workers or an adult who lives in a household where someone works – compared with nearly five in 10 in 1996/97.
Resolution Foundation’s Lindsay Judge said that in-work poverty was “one of the biggest challenges facing 21st-century Britain.”
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