Source: Daily Mail
Ordinary families have been crippled by the rocketing cost of essential goods over the past decade, a report has found.
The price of basic purchases, such as food and fuel, soared by 43 per cent over the decade from 2000.
These rising costs – far above general inflation – have already wiped out most of the gains in living standards made by families on low and modest incomes in the early 2000s, before the downturn began, according to research.
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