Up till about the early 1970s ordinary blokes with blue collar jobs could afford a family home while 'Er indoors cared for the sprogs. Then a typical home cost between 3 to 3.5 times the average wage while today it's between 8 and 9 times and is why a couple must both work to afford one then have to pay an arm and a leg for strangers to care for the kids. Britain's regressing at an alarming rate.

Chiara Giordano
The Independent18 August 2019

In a new report, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has proposed an increase of the pension age to 70 by 2028 and 75 by 2035.

The pension age is already set to increase to 67 by 2028 and to 68 by 2046 – but the organisation, co-founded by former Conservative leader and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan-Smith, wants to see a faster increase.

The CSJ’s latest report said evidence suggested the UK was “not responding to the needs and potential” of an ageing workforce, with hundreds of thousands of people aged 50 to 64 seen as “economically inactive”.

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