Editorial: Loan sharks and economic predators will profit from the chancellor’s indifference to the fate of the least well-off
that the cost-of-living squeeze will force 1.3 million people into absolute poverty next year, including 500,000 children. The incomes of the poorest quarter of households – the vast majority without savings to fall back on – are set to plummet by 6% in real terms.
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