‘Living standards crisis’ looms as rising food prices hold inflation at 2.3 per cent
Price increases are outstripping wage growth
Price increases are outstripping wage growth
Record high of 284,000 EU citizens migrated in year to June
Brexit campaigners have jumped on the migration numbers, but fail to put them in context
First unemployment increase since mid-2015 raises concerns about labour market slowdown
Claiming that social media has caused the fall in teen pregnancy neglects the impact of public policy on women’s health
David Cameron promised to welcome 20,000 Syrians — by the end of December 2015, just 1,085 had arrived
In 2014 the UK was 24 per cent less productive than Germany
One reason for this could be the failure of real earnings growth to keep up with minimum wage increases
There are good reasons to worry that stalling earnings may stifle household demand
The logical endpoint of this trend could be the privatisation of housing associations