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November 24th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The UK’s economic crisis continues to take its toll on low-income families. A new report says an increasing number of people living on low incomes have been referred to food banks.
Salisbury-based Trussell Trust charity says it has recorded that dramatic growth in recent months. The charity says the number of people it has referred to its food banks has increased by nearly 40 percent in the first six months of the current financial year compared to the same period last year.
Now, many believe that the slow rise in incomes compared to the rate of inflation is to blame. “People are basically facing high costs of living and they aren’t receiving wages to meet the costs to enable them to live as they would want to and that would result in an increase in the amount going to food banks”, Robert Oulds, an economic expert from London told Press TV.
The latest figures seem to be just the tip of the iceberg. The shock is more tangible when numbers are compared in a broader scale and more details. According to the charity’s statistics available on its website, the group referred about 61,000 people to its food banks during 2010 to 2011. The number in 2013-2014 went beyond 913,000, marking an almost 15-time growth.
“We see at the moment that the unemployment is falling comparing to other European countries. However, people are not yet feeling the benefits of the economic growth apart from those who may have got jobs as a result of the recent economic activity. But it’s still not sufficient when house prices are increasing and the wages are so low,” Oulds added in his interview with Press TV.
“This is probably likely to continue for quite some considerable time. There is actually very little evidence that there would be a major change in people’s ability to make ends meet in the near future”, Oulds concluded.
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