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The rapidly increasing price of fuel could be making people’s physical and mental health worse.
Two in five (40%) pensioners spent at least one year of the last decade in poverty according to new research from national charity, Independent Age.
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Survey methods specialist, Dr Tarek Al Baghal will be helping to lead the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
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Men are more sensitive to losing jobs, but moving into poverty has a larger impact on women.
New research shows that unemployment increases the risk of separation and that partnerships are equally affected by men and women's unemployment.
As furlough ends in the UK, new research looks at the impact it had on household spending and on financial distress.
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The Office for National Statistics has found that children in Asian households are 2.5 times more likely to live in a household which earns £12k or less before bills.
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The Economic and Social Research Council is the primary funder of the study The Study is led by a team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.
