There is some useful knowledge in various parts of the media about the cost of living crisis, joining it up brings really useful knowledge.
The data comes largely from the Office For National Statistics.
Headline inflation for the last 12 months has dropped to 10.1% but food and energy price inflation is far higher.
Low fat milk is up 45.2%, bread 19% and gas prices 129.4%.
Meanwhile 2.5 million days were taken in strike action in the last six months of 2022 with 850,000 in December alone. The highest figures since 1989(Times)and the highest montly figure since 2011
It’s left to the Morning Star to report that real term wages in the last 3 months of 2022 dropped by 2.5% and 3.4% over the whole of 2022 the lowest since records started in 2000.
Work very much in progress with numbers of live strike ballots
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