The rising cost of transport, childcare and energy have restricted and restrained people who are struggling to get by, according to a decade of authoritative living standards research for the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The Equality Trust has responded to last week's report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on their updated minimum income standard. The report finds that despite an above-inflation increase in the 'national living wage', low-income families are falling further behind a minimum income standard.
Working families with children face bigger shortfalls in their household budgets this year, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s annual report on living standards.