The Living Wage fails to cover basic needs in the UK, charity finds
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45242008
Low-earning parents working full-time are still unable to earn enough to provide their family with a basic, no-frills lifestyle, research suggests. A single parent on the National Living Wage is £74 a week short of the minimum income needed, according to the Child Poverty Action Group. A couple with two children would be £49 a week short of the income needed, the charity said. But this was better than last year, when couples were £59 a week short. The National Living Wage is £7.83 an hour for those aged over 25.
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For those outside the UK: the 'National Living Wage' was just George Osborne's re-branding of the minimum wage to make it sound nicer. Ineffectual and spiteful to the poor, but that's the Tories all over.
he also establish that minimum age requirement to get paid that, basically declaring anyone under 25 is a second class of labor.
If the """"living wage"""" fails to cover the basic needs of peeps it must be awful to be an 18-25 year old on minimum wage trying to go it alone.
How heartwarming, it doesn't cover just shit stateside either.
Guess we're all fucked
Looking at the inflation calculator, I was earning 18p/hr more at min wage when I was 21 ten years ago than a 21yo does today. That means I effectively earned £300 more in 2008-09 than a 21yo working the same hours this year.
All feel-good, no do-good.
which also means if you're over 25 and need to get a basic job, you're buggered as they can just get some kid out of college for cheaper.
The article seems to imply that single parents/couples only have their wage to live off of. Don't parents get tax deductions or allocations over there?
That's Tories for ya, take with one hand and smack you down with a rolled-up newspaper in the other.
For the last decade they've perpetuated a myth that "DERS JUTS NO MONEEEE " yet regularly tout London's success as the rich haven of the world, and find millions of pounds out of thin air when it best suits their needs.
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