{"id":85131,"date":"2026-02-18T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85131"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:55:40","slug":"over-4m-working-households-now-struggling-to-afford-a-decent-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/18\/over-4m-working-households-now-struggling-to-afford-a-decent-life\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Over 4m working households now &#8216;struggling to afford a decent life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Wy7CC.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=776&amp;y=309&amp;s=424&amp;d=424\" alt=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said last month \u201chelping British people with the cost of living is my top priority.\u201d (PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than four million working households across the UK\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/cost-of-living-crisis-labour-keir-starmer-b2918064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">are not earning enough\u00a0<\/a>to afford a \u201cdecent life\u201d, according to new research.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/over-4m-working-households-now-struggling-to-afford-a-decent-life\/ar-AA1WxVa6?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6995edff7a8646918066013ef2318e37&amp;ei=18\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than four million working households across the UK\u00a0are not earning enough\u00a0to afford a \u201cdecent life\u201d, according to new research.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cost-of-living-crisis2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85133,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131\/revisions\/85133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}