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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Vicky Shaw

Living standards outlook for second half of 2020s is bleak, says think tank

In the Resolution Foundation’s ‘central scenario’, the typical annual real income of non-pensioners is set to grow ‘only slightly’ over the five years after 2024-25 (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Archive)

UK households face a “bleak” living standards outlook for the remainder of the 2020s, with the tough start to the decade also contributing to the risk that some could end up no better off by 2030 than they were a decade earlier, according to a think tank.

The Resolution Foundation said that the “bust, boom and bleak outlook” seen this decade could leave the 2020s “as the first decade of the modern era to witness no improvement in disposable incomes across Britain”.

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