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JRF: Universal Credit is failing workers who are locked in poverty

New analysis from Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

 

Sky News people and politics reporter Nick Martin has conducted an in-depth investigation into Universal Credit, speaking to former employees and people with experience of the system. The investigation contains new analysis from JRF showing how more workers are being locked in poverty, and highlighting our call ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget on Monday for the social security system to be redesigned so it loosens poverty’s constraints, enabling more people to build a better life.

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