should not be in a situation where there comes along a crisis and people are already in such a fragile situation that that drags them deeper into poverty. research has also shown that before this cost of living crisis, 1.8 million children across the country were growing up in deep poverty, meaning they are in families whose incomes are completely inadequate to meet their living costs. in the long run we have to do something now, but we also have to think about how we get to a situation where our social security system provides people with the kind of security that they need in face of the rising costs. brute the kind of security that they need in face of the rising costs.- in face of the rising costs. we are talkin: in face of the rising costs. we are talking about in face of the rising costs. we are talking about in in face of the rising costs. we are talking about in work in face of the rising costs. we are talking about in work poverty, - talking about in work poverty, people