Trades Union Congress report finds low wages under Conservatives have dragged an additional 1,350 children a week into poverty
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The Guardian’s Hazel Sheffield and Larry Elliott report: The crisis of poverty that has taken root in the UK over the past 14 years has been laid bare in two reports that reveal the devastating effects low wages and price increases on the lives of 900,000 children.
With both main parties proposing tough welfare spending plans, reports have highlighted the link between rising child poverty and slow wage growth under five Conservative governments since 2010 – the slowest growth since the second world war.
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