Put another way, the 1% have so thoroughly screwed the system that one adults working full time (or two adults working part-time four times) cannot support their children at the same time that social and other state services are collapsing.
Alan Milburn says child poverty ‘no longer problem of the workless and work-shy'
Working parents in Britain “simply do not earn enough to escape poverty”, the government's social mobility tsar Alan Milburn has warned.
Two-thirds of poor children are now from families where an adult works, his report found.
