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Avocado on toast was the snack that became a synonym for millennial excess. But along with holidays and tickets to shows, dining out is proving beyond the budget of Britain’s youngest adults, who, according to new figures, have suffered a slump in their spending power for life’s non-essentials while their parents’ generation have splashed out with increasing abandon.

Britain has seen a big jump in the working poor since the 1990s, with almost three out of five people below the official poverty line living in a household where at least one person is working.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies found that a drop in the number of workless households, better-off pensioners and higher rents had resulted in 8 million in poverty from working households.

The thinktank said that between 1994 and 2017 the share of poverty accounted for by working households had jumped from 37% to 58%.

Almost 4 million children in the UK live in households that would struggle to afford to buy enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other healthy foods to meet the official nutrition guidelines, a groundbreaking food poverty study reveals.

The research, by the Food Foundation thinktank, says the diminishing ability of low-income families to pay for healthy food is consigning the least well-off to a greater risk of diet related illness, such as obesity and diabetes, as well as widening health inequalities across society.

SCOTS consumers face the highest price rises in Britain on food, transport and fuel after Brexit, according to a new report by an influential think tank.

Published today by the IPPR, the report was based on an assessment of how people in different parts of the UK spend their money on different items.

"The proportion of working-age mothers with a job has risen by nearly 50% in the past four decades, a study says.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found the increase was behind a wider rise in the number of women in employment in the UK. It credited a "huge change in working patterns", with women much less likely to stop work when they have children.

But it said the rise in maternal employment had been most noticeable among partners of higher-earning men. According to the think tank, the proportion of mothers aged 25-54 in paid work grew from 50% in 1975 to 72% in 2015."

Incomes of low earners are set to stagnate for at least another three years, leading to record levels of inequality, a new study has found. While household incomes for richer people will begin to rise next year, those on middle and low incomes will not see an increase until at least 2020, the Resolution Foundation think tank said. It means income inequality is likely to rise for the first time since the 1980s and hit record highs during the early 2020s, having fallen in recent years. The Resolution Foundation said government benefit cuts were largely to blame.

Low and middle income households face three years of stagnating living standards lasting until 2020, according to the Resolution Foundation’s annual living standards report.The think tank reports that high inflation following the referendum has caused the return of falling real pay and deepened cuts to working age benefits, meaning typical household incomes are projected to have fallen marginally this financial year (2017-18).

Between 1994 and 2017 there was an increase from 13% to 18% in the proportion of people in working households living in relative poverty that’s an increase of 40% 

By 2017 8 million people in the UK living in working households were in relative poverty.

These are among the key findings of new research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies as part of its annual report on Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality in the UK.

Firstly, the graph does not show what Raab is claiming. The graph does show that after 8 years of Conservative government, real wages are lower than when the coalition took office. In fact they are lower now than they were during the Great Global Recession in 2008. This shows an appalling and shameful record.

After the global recession in 2008, consumer prices rose faster than the average wage, so the real value of wages fell. They continued to fall until 2014.

The Food Foundation compared the cost of following the Eatwell Guide, calculated from existing research, to household expenditure data from the 2015/16 Living Costs and Food Survey and to disposable income data from the 2015/16 Family Resources Survey.

They found that 26.9% of households would need to spend more than a quarter of their disposable income after housing costs to meet the Eatwell Guide costs, and more than half of these households contain at least one child.

The North and the Midlands have the closest trade links with the EU.

"The cost of living will rise more in the North than in London, according to new research by think-tank IPPR."

Price rises will disproportionately affect people in Northern Ireland, Wales, the Midlands and the north-east, reports say

"Childcare debt is set to soar under Universal Credit as claimant families are denied help to afford upfront nursery fees, a charity has warned."

New figures show that while nearly 15million people in Britain say they are surviving on very low amounts of money, many are spending much more than the incomes they admit to.

Resolution Foundation warns of rising inequality amid cuts to working-age benefits