a leaflet by the commune
A mere 22% of a typical household’s monthly income is left after tax and essential bills, down from 28% since 2003. The situation is getting worse. Costs have gone up across the board:
Increase of 10% for Electricity
Increase of 15% for Gas
Increase of 6.6% for Food
Increase of 20.2% for Petrol
Increase of 6.5% for Water
The government says wages must be kept down to stop inflation – but it’s not wages that are to blame. In May, over 90% of workers got wage rises beneath inflation. In fact the share of the overall economy going to wages has gone down this year, as it has every year since 1995. Wages are nowhere near enough to meet the rising costs. To make it worse, unemployment, which has never gone away, is rising fast.
