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Campaigners say there is a "yawning gap" between what parents need for a basic, no-frills standard of living and what they actually have.

The adult pay gap between those born into wealthier families and those from less well-off parents is widening, according to new research. The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that in 2012 a 42-year-old man whose parents were among the richest fifth of households earned an average of 88 per cent more than those from the poorest families. The equivalent gap in 2000 was just 47 per cent.

The income gap between men from poor families and rich ones is also widening, the IFS said.

One in three men from disadvantaged backgrounds are single at age of 42, compared with one in seven from rich families

IFS says increased UK state pension age is lifting earnings from employment but only partially offsetting reduced incomes from other benefits

More than a million women are an average of £32 a week worse off as a result of the government's changes to the state pension age.

Rising employment and falling incomes among the richest has cut the gap between rich and poor, a new report says.

The gap between the richest and poorest households has narrowed but some regions are some way behind the national average income.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation says inflation and benefit cuts are pushing decent standard of living further out of reach

Bishops have called on the Government to urgently review its benefits freeze after a "deeply disturbing" report found poor working parents don't have the cash needed to look after children.

Incomes are too low to provide children with 'no-frills' essentials, says Child Poverty Action Group.

Good news is undervalued. Partly because it doesn’t make as good headlines and partly because there hasn’t been much of it around after a fairly grim decade since the financial crisis. So here’s some: since the turn of the millennium living standards gaps between different ethnic groups have been narrowing in Britain. Since 2002 White … Continued

Men from poor backgrounds are around twice as likely to be single than those from rich families by the time they reach early middle age, research has found. As well as being more likely to be in highly-paid jobs or even working at all, richer men in their early 40s in Britain are also more likely to be living with a partner, according to the findings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). It found the likelihood of being in a relationship, and a partner’s level of earnings, are increasingly related to family background.

Large gaps in income and living standards between different ethnic groups persist in the UK, according to research. A typical Bangladeshi household brings in £8,900 less than the average White British household, whilst Pakistani households bring in £8,700 less. The Resolution Foundation think tank said households originating from a black African background earn 22 per cent less than the White British average.

Gap in annual salaries is highlighted in report, which also finds income is growing fastest in Bangladeshi households

Deep reforms to the state pension affecting more than a million women have saved the Treasury £5bn a year but also “substantially” increased poverty rates, a major new study has revealed. The analysis sets out the impact of pushing women to work into their sixties, with their households stripped of £74-a-week worth of benefits.

First the Resolution Foundation says that inequality is rising. Then along comes the Institute for Fiscal Studies to argue, in a report commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, that it has fallen since 2008. What on earth are we to make of it all? It’s partly because the two organisations were looking at different things.