Work no longer pays for Britons caught in “perfect storm” of falling incomes and rising costs – Oxfam.
Charity warns “UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times”
Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to justify sweeping welfare reforms– is sounding increasingly hollow, according to a new report by Oxfam, which details how getting a job in modern Britain is no guarantee of escaping poverty.
Oxfam’s report, The... 