poorest families have been worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic's economic fall out and are likely to find it harder to recover as society rebuilds, a new report warns.
People already trapped in poverty when Covid-19 hit were the most financially vulnerable and they tend to work in the sectors which have been hit hardest, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said.
In 2018/19, 14.5 million people were in poverty in the UK - more than one in five of the population. The report sets out how, before the pandemic, the standard of living was falling fastest for people on the lowest incomes, while child poverty and in-work poverty had been steadily rising.
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