Failure to protect cost of living will increase poverty and health inequalities, warn analysts
Failure to protect cost of living will increase poverty and health inequalities, warn analysts
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分析师警告称，未能保护生活成本将加剧贫困和健康不平等
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10.1136/bmj.o794
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2022
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M. Limb
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英国政府在保护人们免受不断上升的生活成本危机方面做得太少，这种危机将增加贫困和健康不平等，并加剧NHS服务的压力，卫生领导人、分析师和活动家在回应Rishi Sunak于3月23日向国会议员提交的春季财务报告时表示。他说，对低收入家庭缺乏支持，明年将有130多万人陷入绝对贫困，其中包括50万儿童，而在本届议会结束时，八分之七的工人将面临税负上升。决议基金会的首席执行官托尔斯滕·贝尔（Torsten Bell）说，“不针对受价格上涨打击最严重的人群提供支持的决定，将使中低收入家庭痛苦地暴露在风险之下。”科学与工程运动欢迎Sunak对研发（R&D）的整体公共投资和改革研发税收抵免的承诺，以激励更多的私营部门投资，但它说，朝着这些目标的进展有可能“被不断上升的通货膨胀和不断恶化的经济冲垮”。
The UK government is doing too little to protect people from a spiralling cost of living crisis that will increase poverty and health inequalities and intensify the strain on NHS services, say health leaders, analysts, and campaigners in response to Rishi Sunak’s spring financial statement given to MPs on 23 March. 1 The Resolution Foundation, a think tank on improving living standards, said that the lack of support for low income families would push 1.3 million more people into absolute poverty next year including 500 000 children, while seven in eight workers would see their tax bills rise by the end of this parliament. The Resolution Foundation’s chief executive, Torsten Bell, said,“The decision not to target support at those hardest hit by rising prices will leave low and middle income households painfully exposed.” The Campaign for Science and Engineering welcomed Sunak’s commitment to overall public investment in research and development (R&D) and to reforming R&D tax credits to inspire greater private sector investment, but it said that progress towards these aims risked being “blown off course by rising inflation and a worsening economy.”