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Originally Posted by jfman
The minimum wage, since rebranded living wage, is only 15% higher than it was in 2018 in real terms. It's estimated around 5% of workers are on it.
Despite this "in work poverty" continues to trend upwards as it has done for 20 years.
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In work poverty was the brain child of Gordon Brown, that rather than make employers pay a living wage, subsidised them with in work tax credits that enabled employers to pay less keep more and the tax payer pick up the shortfall.
The Tories failed to reverse it and doubled down on “in work” benefits. A pox on them all.