via Stumbling and Mumbling by Chris Dillow on 25 September
What's the lowest wage you can legally get in the UK? This is a no-brainer. It's the National Minimum Wage.
Read the full article and discover that Chris uses data to show how someone moving off benefits into a low-paid job can actually lose money. He then goes on to imply that this is a negative wage.
Hazel's comment:
Chris, you're wrong to even imply this. It has always (at least since 1948) been possible to get a lower income from working than from staying on benefit – been there, done that, lost that t-shirt from both sides of the benefit counter.
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