Single Parents Have To Work Seven Hours A Week More To Stay Out Of Poverty

Single parents have to work seven hours more each week than they did 10 years ago to stay above the poverty line due to the effect of benefit cuts, a new report exploring in-work poverty has found. The report, published by the Resolution Foundation, found that poverty rates fall from 35% to 18% when people move into work – but even sustained employment does not eliminate in-work poverty for many households. Almost seven in 10 working-age adults living in poverty today are either working themselves or living in a household where someone else does, up from fewer than five in 10 two decades ago. Read more on Inside Housing.

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