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Labour's living wage plan

Publication date: Tuesday, November 5, 2013Some of the lowest-paid workers could get pay rises under plans drawn up by Labour leader Ed Miliband. If the party wins the next election, Miliband says...

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Getting trapped in low-paid work

Publication date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013Almost three-quarters of those workers who were on low pay in 2002 failed to escape from it over the course of the following decade, reveals a new study...

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279,000 jobs ‘pay less than minimum wage’

Publication date: Thursday, December 12, 2013There were 279,000 jobs in April 2013 that paid less than the national minimum wage, according to new figures released by the Office for National...

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Benefits play key role in preventing poverty – TUC

Publication date: Friday, February 14, 2014Tax credits and benefits play a crucial role in lifting low-paid workers out of poverty, according to new research published by the TUC. An analysis by...

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Minimum wage policy ‘no longer adequate’

Publication date: Friday, February 21, 2014The national minimum wage in the UK is no longer strong enough to tackle the country’s low pay problems, according to a report from the Resolution Foundation...

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Commission calls for 3 per cent minimum wage rise

Publication date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014The Low Pay Commission has recommended a 3 per cent rise in the statutory minimum wage from 1 October 2014, lifting the main adult hourly rate from £6.31 to...

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Call to raise minimum wage to £6.94

Publication date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014The government should have a minimum wage target of £6.94 an hour and create a powerful watchdog to help workers escape low pay, according to the conclusions...

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Widening pay gap highlighted

Publication date: Monday, March 24, 2014Between 2000 and 2013 the pay gap between the top 10 per cent and the bottom 10 per cent of earners rose by 5 per cent, according to a new analysis from the...

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Life on a low income in austere times

Publication date: Friday, November 7, 2014Author/s: Simon Pemberton, Eileen Sutton, Eldin Fahmy and Karen BellThe final report from the PSE qualitative research on the reality of life on low income...

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Journal papers

Publication date: Friday, January 29, 2016Read the Journal papers coming from the PSE research. The latest paper examines how analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in...

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Books

Publication date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017OUT NOW - the two-volume study based on the findings of the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK research. Volume 1 examines the extent of poverty and...

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Urban and rural poverty in Scotland

Publication date: Monday, March 7, 2016Author/s: Nick Bailey, Glen Bramley and Maria GannonAnalysis of the PSE-UK survey results finds significant poverty in every kind of location in Scotland with...

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The centrality of poverty

Publication date: Friday, December 8, 2017Author/s: Glen BramleyPoverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation...

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Health Inequalities in England

Publication date: Friday, January 24, 2020Research has just been published which unfortunately shows a growing gap in the quality of health care in England between the poorest and richest areas.New...

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Progress for the Poor

Lane Kenworthy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 176 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-959152-7 (hbk)Reviewed by Stewart LansleyKenworthy examines the relationship between economic growth and changes in living...

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