Low-income families 'less able to achieve decent living standard'

Joseph Rowntree Foundation says inflation and benefit cuts are pushing minimum income standard further out of reach Rising inflation and less generous state benefits have made it harder over the past year for families on tight budgets to enjoy what the public considers a decent standard of living, according to one of Britain's leading thinktanks. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said that despite an above-inflation increase in the "national living wage", low-income families were falling furt...