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!?!
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:35 pm

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

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  2. Anonymous12:52 pm

    Never spoil a fable with a reference.

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  3. Steve Hemingway4:04 pm

    the reference that was missed.

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