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‘Balancing the books’ look goods on paper, Rishi Sunak. But it’s not so pretty on the ground
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‘You never want to be in debt,” my grandmother used to say to me as a child. For her generation, debt equalled subservience to higher-ups. She was also a firm adherent to the Micawber principle: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness.”
But it’s pretty obvious we don’t always see it as wrong to get into debt – many people have mortgages, after all. Nor, sadly, is it always avoidable. The findings from a new report demonstrate as much. An analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that nearly 4m low-income households in Britain have fallen behind on rent, bills or debt payments. The report warns of a debt crisis.
Also, according to the JRF report, around 4.4m low-income
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