LONDON, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- The number of British children growing up in poverty in working households has risen to 2.9 million in 2018, a British national trade union said Monday.
According to a new analysis released by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the number of children living below the breadline has risen by 800,000 since 2010, an increase of 38 percent.
The study also showed that one in five children from British working households had been in poverty in 2010, whereas the proportion rose to one in four in 2018.
London has suffered the biggest increase in child poverty among working families, followed by the West Midlands and East of England, said the TUC.
TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said "no child in Britain should be growing up in poverty, but millions of parents are struggling to feed and clothe their kids. That is not right."
"The Conservatives' cuts to in-work benefits have come at a terrible human cost. As too has their failure to tackle insecure work and get wages rising across the economy," O'Grady added.
Key factors behind the rise of child poverty include weak wage growth and the spread of insecure work, the TUC said.
