A Living Wage for all should be Labour’s mission
Last week The Resolution Foundation and the IPPR published a joint report “Beyond the Bottom Line”, which outlined…
Living wage
Is this how a Living Wage might work under Labour?
There’s an interesting report from IPPR and the Resolution Foundation out today (“Beyond the Bottom Line“) that outlines…
The case for a Rural Living Wage
As a minister at the old Department for Children, Schools and Families, I was very proud when Ed…
Just boosting the Minimum Wage handicaps efforts to end poverty pay
Driving above 70 miles per hour. Selling cigarettes, brought abroad in a lower sales-tax jurisdiction, to friends at…
The Living Wage is a good idea – but we could, and should, do more
I’m on my way to Islington this morning to hear Ed Miliband return to a subject that is…
Miliband to make Living Wage speech
Ed Miliband is in Islington this morning, meeting ocal government leaders who already pay the Living Wage. Here’s…
Bringing the Living Wage to Scotland – an idea whose time has come
“An idea whose time has come”. Not my words, nor even those of the Living Wage Foundation, on…
Big companies can afford a living wage
Many of the UK’s largest employers could afford to pay their staff a ‘living wage’ without taking a…
Let’s hear it for a Living Wage – again, again and again
Driving home from the train station on the way back from work last Friday night, I nearly crashed.…
