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...
View ArticleBenefits 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...
View ArticleMinimum 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...
View ArticleCommission 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...
View ArticleCall 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...
View ArticleWidening 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...
View ArticleJournal 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...
View ArticleBooks
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHealth 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...
View ArticleProgress 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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