Workers in #poverty as #socialmobility grinds to a halt, and #unemployed people cannot afford to take entry-level work. The governments Social Mobility Tsar, ex-Labour minister Alan Milburn, says that work no longer consistently pays enough to lift people out of poverty. Wages for most have been stuck below inflation since 2003, meaning they have been getting #poorer for ten years. The government will miss its child poverty targets because of this as well as its savage cuts to #benefits. This week saw confirmation that the gap between wage growth and the cost of living is getting bigger, as inflation stayed at 2.7% while pay only rose 0.7% over the last year. The concentration of that growth among the richest means poverty is spreading up the social scale, with many middle class children likely to be poorer than their parents. Unemployed people need entry-level jobs to pay liveable wages to be able to afford to take them, but the coalition government has concentrated its make work pay agenda entirely on reducing the value of benefits.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:16:07 +0000
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