
A “toxic combination” of stagnating pay, zero-hour contracts and benefit cuts are having “a devastating impact on family budgets”, said the union body’s general secretary Paul Nowak.
Since the Conservative Party came to power in 2010, initially in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the number of children living in poverty where at least one parent is in work has risen by 913,000.
As of last year, there were three million children in working households “living below the breadline in the UK”, warns the TUC, which has used official household income figures as its source.
Seven in 10 of all children in poverty are in working households. One in four children in working households are in poverty, it adds.
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