Nearly 300,000 families ‘need eight-day working week’ to escape poverty
NEARLY 300,000 families where both parents are in full-time employment need an eight-day working week to escape poverty, a charity has warned.
Action for Children said its research challenges the “myth that work alone is a passport out of poverty.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Parliament after last year’s Autumn Statement that “the best way” to avoid child poverty is to ensure that “they do not grow up in a workless household.”
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