IFS: Government tax and benefit changes to reduce household incomes ‘significantly’
The government’s changes to tax and benefits will hurt poorer households significantly harder, according to the respected think tank
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Problem debt could be holding back the recovery, says new report
There has been a sharp rise in household debt among young people and low-income families
Three messages for families in 2020: don’t be a lone parent, don’t have too many children, and do work all hours
By 2020 a lone parent will be 30 per cent worse off than they were in 2010
George Osborne taking from the poor to give to the wealthy, according to new research
The average annual amount lost by low paid working households is equivalent to a year’s worth of school dinners
Has the CETA free trade deal run into more trouble?
A failure to secure satisfactory changes will make it harder to get the deal through
PFI is still crippling our public services
PFI contracts need to be thoroughly investigated, so we can return some of the money to schools and hospitals
Osborne’s Living Wage will narrow the pay gap, but won’t help the very poorest families
New research shows that the biggest beneficiaries of the new wage will be households in the middle of the bottom wage distribution
The Tories don’t want to make work pay. They want to make working families pay
David Cameron doesn’t have the first idea how to lead a workers’ party
744,000 people in the UK now on zero-hours contracts
The latest data from the ONS shows a steep rise in the number of people in insecure work
The areas where three-quarters of women earn below the Living Wage for part-time work
Today is Part-time Equal Pay Day, effectively the last day of 2015 in which women working part time get paid