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Employment 2008
Employment 07
January
Working Out of Poverty: A study of the low-paid and the ‘working poor’
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.
http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=581
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