Thursday, June 14, 2007

Number Crunching

16: Working hours needed for a single mother to earn £487 a week after tax credits.

116: Working hours needed for a two-parent family to earn £487 a week on the minimum wage.

Will the Conservative Party ever challenge this injustice!?!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good lord! Never realised it was so high. Just another great example of how incentives have been destroyed.

Anonymous said...

Never spoil a fable with a reference.

Steve Hemingway said...

the reference that was missed.