Tesco store in Liverpool stops prosecuting shoplifters as cost-of-living crisis intensifies
"It's like a perfect tsunami of absolute abject misery", local MP Ian Byrne said.
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Centrica profits soar on the back of rising energy bills – shareholders to cash in
“We are very aware of the difficult environment many customers are facing and we will continue supporting them", the group's chief exec said.
‘Alarming and dangerous:’ Think tank slammed for urging Govt to cut red tape in housing, childcare and energy
Joshua Emden, a senior research fellow at IPPR, said: “At a time when people’s incomes are being squeezed, stripping protection from their homes, children and our energy system would be alarming and dangerous.
Low-paid workers ‘unlikely to report abuses out of fear and insecurity’ as more over-50s returning to work amid cost-of-living crisis
"Job insecurity, a poisonous workplace culture and low expectations leave workers trapped in poor-quality jobs and vulnerable to exploitation."
Smaller pay rises are a good thing apparently and it’s gone down as you would expect
To make the rich work harder you pay them more; to make the poor work harder you pay them less...
What is going on? Nurses ‘banned from drinking water’ and train drivers using incontinence products
It comes as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at train companies and Network Rail will walk out on July 27.
Reactions as shoppers charged £9.35 for tub of Lurpak and is security tagged
"Lurpak are now accepting 3-month plans on klarna, making the payments spreadable," tweeted one joker.
Almost half of children in lone-parent families in relative poverty due to reduction in real value of benefits
The rise in relative poverty for children of lone parents reflects reductions in the real value of state benefits between 2011 and 2019.
Royal spending surpasses £100m as household incomes fall for record fourth quarter in a row
“As always, while the rest of us face a cost-of-living crisis and continued squeezes on public services, the royals walk off with hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.”