The Working Poor: Britain’s families living on the breadline

Work is the best route out of poverty - it’s a slogan popular with politicians both left and right for the past two decades. But as the country surges towards record numbers of people in work - the number of those in work and in poverty too is also rising. (Click to subscribe for more Channel 4 News videos. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 57 per cent of people in poverty live in households where at least one person has a job - up more than twenty per cent since 1995.