Resolution Foundation warns of rising inequality amid cuts to working-age benefitsBritain is at risk of the first sustained rise in inequality since the late 1980s as poorer families face three years of stagnating incomes,according to the Resolution Foundation.
The thinktank warned that government cuts to working-age benefits were damaging prospects for 8 million low and middle-income households, as the rollout of £14bn of welfare reductions offsets the gains from policies such as the “national living wage”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk