Costs of food, fuel causes largest drop in UK pay in decades

LONDON, England: As surging food and energy prices are eating up a growing proportion of their wages, workers in the UK are struggling with the largest decrease in real pay in more than two decades.

According to data released this week by the Office for National Statistics, real pay, which takes inflation into account, dropped by 2.8 percent between March and May, compared to the same time last year, the most ra