A RECENT study by Landman Economics for the Trades Union Congress has found that 1m more children in working households are growing up in poverty than in 2010, due largely to cuts to in-work benefits and public sector pay freezes.
Child poverty in working families is expected to hit 3.1m in the 2018/19 tax year, up from 2.1m in 2010, with 60 per cent of the increase attributed to pay freezes and benefits cuts.
The government is in denial about how many working families just can’t make ends meet.
We need ministers to boost the minimum wage now, and use the social security system to make sure no child grows up in a family struggling to get by.
Its time we had Government for the many not the few.
Steve Lydon
District councillor for The Stanleys
Labour
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