POVERTY

Working Out of Poverty: A study of the low-paid and the 'working poor' (3rd January 2008)

The rights to work and earn a decent living are timeless demands of the labour movement and basic characteristics of a fair society. However, almost six in ten poor households in the UK (57 per cent) have someone at work, up ten percentage points on a decade ago, according to new analysis presented in this report. For too many families, moving into work has not meant moving out of poverty. This report presents the findings of the Institute for Public Policy Research analysis into the extent and nature of both low pay and working poverty, and set out recommendations for tackling them.
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