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TUC response to Women and Equalities Select Committee call for evidence 
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This report sheds light on some of the drivers of changes in housing costs over time for different groups.
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This article references data which is available in the UK Data Service collection: Family Expenditure Survey
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Produced in partnership with Nesta, we highlight nine trends that represent some of the major challenges for health and care in England.
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This article references data which is available in the UK Data Service collection: Active Lives Survey British Social Attitudes Survey Households Below Average Income
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As the cost of living crisis enters a dangerous new phase, it's pushed millions of people to rely on unsecured lending as a last resort to pay for bills and essentials.
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We investigate recent trends in poverty, and government policies aimed at alleviating it.
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This article references data which is available in the UK Data Service collection: Living Costs and Food Survey, Households Below Average Income
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An end to the additional support made available during the pandemic has driven up the number of children experiencing poverty to 4.2 million last year (29 per cent of all dependent children aged 0-19), with an increasing number living in working households.
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Official figures show that 8.8million people in Britain had an income above £1,000 a week in the year to March 2022 - which would equate to £52,000 a year and put them in the higher rate tax bracket.
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One-third of practitioners say they are providing more support to people from their own resources, while annual survey by association also suggests workload pressures are rising
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The financial year from April 2021 to March 2022 feels a long time ago. The furlough scheme and £20 a week benefit boost were in place for the first half of that year, Rishi Sunak was Chancellor, inflation averaged a ‘mere’ 4 per cent, and, even after some notable increases, the typical annualised energy bill only reached £1,277, around half its current (capped) level of £2,500.
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Conservative government has pushed up working poverty by rewarding wealth instead of work, says TUC
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A minimum standard of living is more than just food, clothes and shelter: it’s about having the opportunities and choices to participate in society.
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The European Union (EU) is committed to combating poverty and social exclusion, and one way it does this is by calculating a poverty line.
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PEOPLE who are struggling to heat their homes due to being behind with their energy bills will benefit from a £3m scheme.
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Millions of people are still in the grip of high and rising prices, a rapid rise in interest rates, and a deteriorating job market. This remains a dangerously evolving crisis. The Autumn Statement must address the breadth and depth of hardship in the UK - anything less will be a failure.
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Generation Y counterparts in the US have closed living standards gap on previous generations
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This article references research using data which is available in the UK Data Service collection: Family Resources Survey,
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Gavin Short, Customer Experience Manager at United Welsh, provides readers with an insight into how horrific factors currently impacting the social housing sector have caused residents and staff members mental health to severely decline.
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On Wednesday, the Scottish Government and COSLA released their anticipated (and widely leaked) consultation on Council Tax changes.
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We investigate how living standards have changed for different groups in the UK, with a particular focus on the cost of living payments and housing.
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This article references data which is available in the UK Data Service collection: English Housing Survey,
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On 3 April, in a column for the Irish Times, campaigner Emma de Souza claimed:
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An estimated 350,000 more children were pulled into poverty last year, largely because the Government cut the £20 universal credit uplift half-way through the year, reveals new analysis of official figures.
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The Government’s annual Households below average income data released today provides the most comprehensive overview of poverty in the UK.
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Unprecedented government support helped to ensure that typical disposable incomes didn’t fall over the course of the pandemic, and actually rose for poor families, in marked contrast to the biggest income squeeze in a generation that Britain is currently living through, the Resolution Foundation said today (Thursday) in response to the latest Households Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics.
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One-fifth of UK population was in relative poverty after first year of pandemic, when support measures scrapped
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UK Poverty 2023 sets out recent trends in poverty across the UK, how levels of poverty differ between groups of people and regions, and the impact it has on people’s lives.
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For almost half a century, in other words within the limits of political memory, Britain has been a country where the priority of most governments has been to keep a few key economic numbers low. Income tax, interest rates, inflation and most people’s wages: all were deliberately suppressed by Downing Street and its collaborators in business and the Bank of England. By doing so a space was created – in theory at least – for certain interest groups to flourish: employers, entrepreneurs, shareholders, top earners, homeowners and consumers. Together, they were supposed to boost our previously sluggish rate of economic growth.
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This article references data which is available in the UK Data Service collection: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - Households Below Average Income