Friday, October 18, 2013

Work 'may be no route out of poverty'


"A report headed up by one-time Labour minister Alan Milburn will highlight stagnating incomes and rising prices.

He is due to call on employers to do more to support low-paid families earning less than a living wage.

He will also say middle-class children face being worse off than their parents for the first time in over a century.

Elsewhere, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warned against asking pensioners to pay more to tackle the problem."


www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24553611


"In comments which put him at odds with Prime Minister David Cameron's oft-repeated mantra that "the best way out of poverty is work", Mr Milburn said that child poverty was now "overwhelmingly" an issue for the working poor, rather than the "workless or work-shy"."

uk.news.yahoo.com/clegg-rejects-higher-p...0907271.html#DnlHRwe