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• Posted on 23 March 2015 by Kirby Swales, Director of Survey Research Centre

  Financial Insecurity in the Recession

  

  A closer analysis of the first four waves of Understanding Society shows that a quarter (25%) of all adults have said that they were finding it difficult to cope financially at least once during 2009-2013.

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  Tags: British Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society, financial insecurity, poverty, recession

• Posted on 20 June 2013

  The other side of the coin - the impact of the recession on our feelings of financial insecurity

  Last week the government released the latest data on household incomes.  This showed that our incomes have continued to fall since the recession, mainly because wages are not keeping up with inflation and cuts to benefits.  And the statistics show a big difference between the young and the...

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  Tags: financial insecurity, pensions, recession