A TUC report has found that child poverty in working families is up almost 40 per cent since 2010.
'The number of children growing up in poverty in working households has risen by 800,000 since 2010...The analysis reveals that child poverty in working families rose to 2.9 million in 2018 – an increase of 38% since the start of the decade.
In 2010, 1 in 5 (19%) children in working households were growing up in poverty.
In 2018 this had increased to 1 in 4 (24%).'
'More than 485,000 children (in working households) have been pushed below the breadline as a direct result of the government’s in-work benefit cuts...other factors are- Weak wage growth, The spread of insecure work, Population
growth, The rise in the number of working households hasn’t been enough to lift families out of poverty.'
The TUC suggest raising the minimum wage to £10 an hour, stopping and scrapping Universal Credit, banning zero-hours contracts, giving workers new rights to join unions and bargain for better pay and conditions across industries.
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