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Last month the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported that millions of households cannot make ends meet despite at least one adult working full-time. Their research found that 2.6 million households, or 60% of those where the total income is below the charity’s minimum income standard, included at least one working adult.

Communities across the country have borne the brunt of austerity and related policies. They have experienced the adverse effects of a raft of unpleasant and destructive policies and social conditions including public expenditure cuts, rising poverty and inequality, the inadequacy of supply of affordable homes, and much more.