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The numbers don't lie: black and Asian workers hit hardest
The country has been plunged into the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory and pre-existing racial inequality only magnifies the impact, explains ROGER McKENZIE
THE Chancellor’s recent Spring Statement could have put in place measures to help people to put food on the table and to heat their homes but instead the Tories chose to prioritise the ideology that being in work is the way out of poverty and until then it’s everyone for themself.
As always, black people are at the sharpest end of poverty. Same as it ever was, as the song goes.
The statistics show that poverty rates for the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities are already higher than other ethnic groups and are clearly set to get worse as the cost-of-living crisis bites.
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