Why poor Britons in prosperous places are suffering

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While prosperous commuters have mostly been shielded from the first wave of economic damage, the same is not true of their poorer neighbours

to Britain from Poland a decade ago. She spent the first four years living in London before cheaper housing drew her to Stevenage, a drab but prosperous commuter town 30 miles north of the capital. Until March this year, she worked in a London sandwich shop, even though the train season-ticket swallowed around a third of her income. She was furloughed in April and recently found out her job would not be coming back.

Analysis of redundancy consultations by the Institute for Employment Studies, a research outfit, suggests that an additional 445,000 jobs will be lost between July and September. Advertised vacancies have bounced back from the record low they hit in April, but are still almost 50% below last year. Samuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics, a consultancy, fears theis understating the rise in unemployment.

 

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True! It's the case in almost all countries. However, I feel a little discomfort in reducing concept of suffering to only 'immediate financial crunch' and that's why rue the premise that prosperous commuters aren't suffering. I guess they are suffering in their own unique ways.

No kidding.

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