Thought for the Week: Why I support a Living Wage

As the first Living Wage Week approaches, Sarah Holtam considers the issue of working poverty

by Sarah Holtam 2nd November 2012

This Sunday sees the start of the first Living Wage Week. The Living Wage campaign highlights fair pay as an urgent moral and practical necessity to eradicate poverty. It identifies that the minimum wage does not afford an adequate quality of life to people forced to work two or even three jobs in order to support their families. The Guardian reported this week that one in five British workers (nearly five million people) live in working poverty.