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Old 28-12-2012, 14:37   #15
martyh
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Re: living wage or minimum wage ?

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Originally Posted by Escapee View Post
But wasn't that the aim of the last government, they encouraged single women with children to work 16 hrs minimum wage and married couples to work on minimum wage topped up with tax credits. This made the unemployment figures look good and the 16 hours was also a bit of a job share in many cases, their approach with single people was that they could just rot in hell.
I think,with the last government they took the socialist dogma of cradle to the grave support from the state far too literal without looking to history for examples of failure of that system.
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