Government ‘still failing’ low paid families

Attempts by the government to tackle low-paid jobs and poverty have failed, the Institute for Public Policy Research said yesterday. The IPPR said that persistent high levels of low pay and ‘in-work’ poverty remained despite the national minimum wage and tax credits. Five million employees, or a fifth of the UK’s workforce, are low paid, earning less that 60 per cent of average earnings, and more than half poor children live in a working household.