- World food prices are increasing due to food shortages, the cost of living is rising but wages are not increasing at the same rate: the ‘squeezed middle’ are feeling the pinch financially and their prospects of keeping up with higher costs through employment alone are diminishing.
- Childcare costs have grown by 4 times the rate of inflation: families question the sense of the mother, the primary child carer in the majority of cases, working full-time.
What economic factors would you add?