Brexit is a burning issue. But poverty is still the big one | Julia Unwin

Seismic shifts in the labour market have fuelled mistrust and insecurity, and left far too many ‘just about managing’ families teetering on the brink of disasterThree striking trends stand out from the annual state-of-the-nation report Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). First, the inexorable rise of in-work poverty. A total of 7.4 million people are in poverty, despite being in a working family – a figure that has rise