Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to today’s Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, said:
“This shocking Joseph Rowntree Foundation report is further evidence of how under the Tories low pay and the cost-of-living crisis is hitting millions of families. Under David Cameron child poverty is set to rise by and half of those in poverty live in working households. A Labour government will build a recovery that leaves no one left behind by raising the minimum wage, extending free childcare for working parents, freezing energy bills and reforming failing markets.”
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