Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

[MissFM]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...6pLid%3D228765

:lever: :yell: 21st century in the UK and fewer and fewer are able to earn a realistic living wage, however hard they work...meanwhile the rich get richer and squirrel it away abroad to avoid tax.

[FlamingParrot]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

Personally, I've never believed that hard work is the way out of poverty, it's a myth perpetrated by those who want to profit at the expense of others. :mad2:

Instead of working hard, people should work smart instead!

[wales01man]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

I know I am a peasant ,I know I am poor and according to the criteria im in poverty but I still eat ggod ffod nothing posh,keep warm have a good family and although my health is not the best im alive and reasonably happy

[bluebottle]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

Where employers pay a living wage, they have a lower turnover of staff and, consequently, lower costs. Those who pay low wages find that there is a higher turnover of staff and, as a result, higher costs as they have to keep recruiting new staff. Not exactly rocket science, is it?

[wales01man]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

They would still pay low wages and as for paying for recruiting staff that matters for nothing they do what they want without minimum wage they would ve paying about 3 quid an hour

[bluebottle]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

They would still pay low wages and as for paying for recruiting staff that matters for nothing they do what they want without minimum wage they would ve paying about 3 quid an hour

Which raises the question "Why should the taxpayer subsidise low-paying employers, through the benefits system, enabling them to compete unfairly with those employers who treat their employees properly and pay a living wage?" It will take a change of public mindset to force low-paying employers to pay living wages, even if it means the public persuading central and local government to use only those employers who pay a living wage.

[wales01man]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

The taxpayer subsidise the rich employers and shareholders cos they are the ones that run the country via the elected crooks at all levels of government

[bluebottle]

Re: Poverty report reveals most poor people have jobs

The taxpayer subsidise the rich employers and shareholders cos they are the ones that run the country via the elected crooks at all levels of government

I cannot disagree with that, Wales.