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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

SHOCKING: Uk workers 11k worse off after years of wage stagnation thinktank - What They Never Told You

Commuters on their way to work in London
Commuters on their way to work in London. The average UK worker is losing out by thousands of pounds a year, says the Resolution Foundation. Photograph: Tejas Sandhu/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Workers in the UK are £11,000 worse off a year after 15 years of “almost completely unprecedented” wage stagnation that signals a failure of recent economic policy, according to the Resolution Foundation.

The thinktank, which focuses on low- to middle-income households, compared wage inflation before the 2008 financial crash with the pace set since and found that the average worker was losing out by thousands of pounds a year.

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