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High housing costs outweigh cheap food to widen living standards gaps between poor families in Britain and their German, Dutch and French counterparts

[IMG]//caithness-business.co.uk/image_cache/na25784_tn.jpg[/IMG] The sky-high cost of housing outweighs the relatively low cost of food to make Britain a particularly pricey country for poorer families - and widens household income gaps between poor British households and their German, Dutch and French counterparts - according to new Resolution Foundation research published on 13 January 2025. The briefing note Whose price is it anyway? compares the spending power of low-to-middle income families in Britain with other advanced economies, and what this means for cross-country household income gaps. [Read Full Article]