Paltry 0.2% Growth In Disposable Income Shows Banking Crisis Punished Workers

Working households have just £650 more to spend than before the financial crash, fresh official statistics have shown. New ONS figures have underlined how disposable incomes went into sharp decline after the 2008 banking crisis and have grown just 0.2% over the last decade - a tenth of the rate of the preceding decade.In the ten years before the financial crash, extra income grew by a comparatively-huge £7,200 (an average of 3.3% every year) and the TUC said Brita