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Originally Posted by martyh
A living wage is worked out to give workers a wage they can live off ,worked out to keep up with the cost of living ,rising with the cost of living and meaning less dependence on benefits .
The minimum wage is not even close to that .It is a legal minimum that employers must pay their workers that has no relation whatsoever with the cost of living ,it encourages low pay ,increases benefit dependency and costs the treasury billions of pounds annually in tax credits and benefits .
One thing they are not is the same
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Isn't the proposal that the so called living wage becomes the new minimum wage and therefore there would end up being no difference between the two.
How can any wage level cope with the huge range of differences of circumstances. You have at one end the teenage single childless person living at home with their parents, and at the other a couple with half a dozen(or more) kids. No wage level can deal with that wide a range of circumstances.