{"id":4203,"date":"2019-03-04T08:44:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:35","slug":"call-for-increase-in-minimum-wage-to-combat-in-work-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/03\/04\/call-for-increase-in-minimum-wage-to-combat-in-work-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for increase in minimum wage to combat in-work poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Living Wage Foundation has said as many as 1.2 million people working for the NHS, councils and other public sector employers receive unsustainably low wages of less than \u00a39 an hour, or \u00a310.55 in London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/t-v\/taylor-gooby-peter.html\">Professor Taylor-Gooby<\/a>, Research Professor of Social Policy, comments: \u2018It is clear 1.2 million public sector workers receive wages so low that they are in poverty even after a full week\u2019s work.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Official statistics show that just over two thirds of those below the poverty line live in households where at least one person is in work&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/21337\/expert-comment-benefits-expert-calls-for-increase-in-minimum-wage-to-combat-in-work-poverty\">University&#8217;s News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Living Wage Foundation has said as many as 1.2 million people working for the NHS, councils and other public sector employers receive unsustainably low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/03\/04\/call-for-increase-in-minimum-wage-to-combat-in-work-poverty\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,139988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}