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The number of public-sector staff struggling to survive on poverty pay is actually double the figure than previously estimated, research revealed yesterday while MPs mulled over the prospect of a massive 11 per centsalary rise.
The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said one million local authority employees are now living on low wages - equivalent to one in four of the workforce.
It found frozen wages coupled with the soaring cost of living have left public-sector workers £2,000 worse off on average compared with when the Tories took power in 2010.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
