The outlook for living standards and inequality TAP: Health Equality seminar David Finch July 2017 @ resfoundation @davidfinchrf
from past to present
Strong employment growth since 2008
With the greatest employment growth for lower income families
A prolonged post-crisis pay squeeze…
A prolonged post-crisis pay squeeze… …that has just returned
Translating to the lowest decade of wage growth for 150 years
The income recovery has started to weaken
Incomes have recovered at the top and middle, while remaining broadly flat at the bottom
the future
Economic outlook: Real pay growth is set to remain weak
Policy outlook: Some gains from higher wage floor & income tax cuts
But big welfare cuts are yet to fully bite
Leading to net losses for the poorest half of households
Incomes outlook: Falling incomes in the poorest half of working-age households & rising inequality
The outlook for living standards and inequality TAP: Health Equality seminar David Finch July 2017 @ resfoundation @davidfinchrf