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Greece: Cost of living crisis hits ordinary households hard

11/11/2023 - Leave a Comment

“The money I now spend in the supermarket to buy three day’s worths of food for my family, last year was enough for an entire week’s worth of groceries,” Anna …

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Cost of living is driving one in four workers globally to look for new jobs

24/06/2023 - Leave a Comment

The rising cost of living is causing employed people to look for either higher pay with a new job or take on additional jobs, according to the recently released Global Workforce Hopes and …

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Europe sees inflation drop to 6.1%, but real relief for consumers will take months

02/06/2023 - Leave a Comment

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s inflation took a positive turn with a significant drop to 6.1%, but prices are still posing a pinch to shoppers who are yet to see …

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How company profits are keeping prices high

07/04/2023 - Leave a Comment

When major oil companies announced record earnings in February, even US President Joe Biden was appalled. The White House said it was “outrageous” that ExxonMobil had raked in a profit of $56 billion (€51 billion) in …

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Inflation: How financial speculation is making the global food price crisis worse

02/12/2022 - Leave a Comment

UK households, like those in many other countries, are struggling to make ends meet. More than half of households have only £2.66 per week left after paying for bills and essentials, according …

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Too poor to die: the rise of crowdfunded funerals

12/11/2022 - Leave a Comment

Amid soaring inflation, more families are having to turn to the kindness of strangers to shoulder the cost of dying. When Cerys Defis lost her mom, Tresi Davies, to bowel …

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EU Commission allows collective bargaining for solo self-employed

08/10/2022 - Leave a Comment

Two years after its initiative to ease collective bargaining for self-employed workers, the European Commission published new guidelines to allow collective bargaining for solo self-employed people under EU competition rules. …

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Eurozone inflation hits record 10%, highest in the history of the euro

01/10/2022 - Leave a Comment

Inflation in the 19-member eurozone reached 10% in September, the highest it has ever been in the history of the common European currency, according to the latest flash estimate from …

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UK’s COVID heroes among hardest hit by cost of living crisis

18/08/2022 - Leave a Comment

t the height of the pandemic, as hundreds were dying each day, Ivan Andino was travelling across London on a crowded Tube carriage to clean an empty office.  Ivan works …

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Economic growth slows as cost-of-living crisis dents optimism

22/04/2022 - Leave a Comment

The UK economy grew at its slowest pace for three months as companies saw a marked slowdown in business in the first half of April, according to new data. The …

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