Wednesday, September 15, 2010

low pay in uk

More than five million people -more than a fifth of all employees- in the UK earn less than a low pay threshold, highlighting the huge level of wage inequality in the country, according to the TUC.

Since 1997, the poorest 10% of households have seen their weekly incomes fall by £9 a week and as real wages have fallen, the gap between what workers earned and what they needed had been increasingly filled by debt.

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