Coronavirus can strike anyone from a prince to a pauper, but the effects of lockdown are far from equal. If you have the space and kind of job that allows working from home, access to the internet and a garden then the last six weeks may have been bearable.
But the government’s financial watchdog, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and the Resolution Foundation think-tank have all warned there are unequal effects of the lockdown.
Some people are more likely to feel the effects of lockdown harder and for longer. Who is suffering most?Generation ZThe under-25s in the working population are the worst off under lockdown, in the long and short term.The younger generation was already on track to be less wealthy and healthy than their parents