The demand to show quarterly returns has [company] boards setting ambitious rates of return in a flat economy only achieved by cutting corners and squeezing the living daylights out of working people.
Once again, it's revealed, commuter rail fares are rising above the rate of inflation, squeezing the cost of living still further for hard-pressed families.
"In one of the camps, for example, more than 14,000 people are squeezed into living spaces adequate for barely a third of that number.
She added: "And his caution on interest rates may have been carefully phrased, but showed he understood the worries of households hit by the living standards squeeze".
Conservative ministers and backbenchers are urging the Chancellor to recognise that squeezed living standards are the number one political priority.
"The things that I've talked about over the last year – the squeeze on living standards, the threat to the chances of young people, and irresponsibility at the top and at the bottom – a year on you find everybody is talking about those issues.
Retail industry experts say the emergence of Poundland, Aldi and Lidl as powerful retail brands has confirmed the impact of austerity and squeezed living standards on shopping tastes.
This has prompted a fall in the value of the pound, which will lead to higher inflation and squeezed living standards in 2017.
Cuts, austerity and squeezed living standards stretch seemingly without end into the future.
All sides recognise that squeezed living standards will be a central feature of the next election and will be casting around for options that do not come with a direct cost to the Treasury.
