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Households will see an increase in real income next year for the first time since the credit crunch struck, with middle-income earners and poorer families benefiting the most, according to research.

Unemployment is set to continue rising over the next five years in most parts of the UK because of a weaker economic outlook, according to a new report.

Families are £10 a week worse off than they were a year ago and face a third year of real incomes being eroded, a study warned today.

Households are facing the biggest peace-time squeeze in their spending power since 1921 as wages fail to keep up with soaring inflation, according to a new report.

The fragile economic recovery looks set to disrupt the housing market during 2011 leading to property price falls, it was predicted today.

House prices will edge ahead by 2% next year but property values will be 16% higher by the end of 2014, an economics consultancy predicted today.

Interest rates will stay at rock bottom in the years to come as the Government tackles the UK's wounded economy, a report predicts.

The cost of living froze in February compared to the same period last year, as one of the key measures of inflation fell to zero for the first time in 49 years.