The effects of Rishi Sunak's "short-sighted" Spending Review will plunge more children into poverty and push more families towards financial ruin, campaigners have warned.
Anti-poverty charities say vulnerable children and families were "at the back of the queue" in the Chancellor's bleak financial outlook which revealed the "economic emergency" caused by coronavirus has only just begun and there will be "lasting damage".
Millions of minimum wage workers are to get a pay rise of just 19p an hour, two million people will see their benefits climb by only 37p a week, and the Chancellor did not commit to extending the £1,000 Universal Credit uplift.
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