A job should offer everyone a route out of poverty, yet these figures show more than half of families below the poverty line have at least one adult in work- Owen Smith
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Owen Smith MP, commenting on the findings of the JRF's Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report 2015, said:
“A job should offer everyone a route out of poverty, yet these figures show more than half of families below the poverty line have at least one adult in work. While the prospects look ever worse for young people, with 1.7 million left struggling in poverty right at the start of their adult lives.
“For all their bluster and spin, in work poverty is rocketing on this government’s watch. There are now almost 7 million working families in poverty. So it is a gross insult that the Tories are planning yet more cuts to the support working families rely on like tax credits, universal credit or housing benefit.
"The Tories have never shown themselves to be a friend of workers or young people. The Autumn Statement will be a chance to change course, but I’m afraid it’s one they’re unlikely to take.”
(via labourpress)
