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Priced out: the new inflation and its impact on living standards

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posted on 2015-03-13, 11:09 authored by Donald Hirsch, James Plunkett, Jacqueline Beckhelling
This paper that identifies new evidence that, because of a new inflation environment, hard times started significantly earlier for households on lower incomes than for the average UK household. Because the costs of essential goods and services have been rising much faster than standard rates of inflation for some time, households on modest incomes have fared far worse than official data suggests. More and more are struggling to achieve a minimum standard of living. Looking forwards, these lower-income households could largely miss out on the fruits of a slow recovery; following a substantial decline in their living standards, they may see little or no improvement during the next decade.

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Resolution Foundation

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  • Social Sciences

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  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

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  • Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)

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HIRSCH, D., PLUNKETT, J. and BECKHELLING, J., 2011. Priced out: the new inflation and its impact on living standards. London: Resolution Foundation, 23pp.

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© Resolution Foundation

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2011

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This is a report published by the Resolution Foundation http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/

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  • en

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