800,000 More Children From Working-Class Households Growing Up in Poverty in the UK

800,000 more children from in working-class households growing up in poverty in the UK

The number of children growing up in poverty has increased by 800,000 in the last nine years. The Trade Union Congress (TUC) feels it is due to in-work benefit cuts, weak wage growth as well as growing population.

A Household’s Below Average Income Statistics by the Department for Work and Pensions, UK (DWP) was released in June thi....