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The cost-of-living crisis continues, TUC Warns
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FALLING inflation does not mean the end of the cost-of-living crisis, unions warned today.
Ministers were celebrating a drop in the inflation rate to 2.3 per cent, which was almost in line with official targets.
But TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “The cost-of-living crisis is not over — no matter how much ministers pretend it is.
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