I think the minimum wage only looks "really high" in narrow statistical terms. The standard measure is relative to a median that has been stagnant for ~15 years, so misses the cost of living impacts. On the ground, working parents at/near the minimum wage are increasingly relying on food banks.

Yes a lifelong taxpayer / middle earner who falls long-term sick would be much worse off under the green paper proposal than they are currently, which is hardly championing the spirit of 'contribution'

Very interesting (and clever) study, though GLD at 5 is perhaps a rather short-run metric in this context (I know the study acknowledges this). Be interesting to see against longer-term outcomes. Any prospect of linking this dataset directly with benefit data in future?

59% say they support it in a single issue YouGov poll, but the BSA survey also shows large majorities recognise there is a lot of poverty in Britain and want government to do something about it. How people feel about it is also v. contingent on how it is framed - More in Common did some work on this

Thanks for updating this Ben, a really valuable corrective to a persistently skewed narrative

Yeah, sorry here's link
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Guardian had something similar.

Youth Guarantee is still early days and only funded in 8 pilot areas (England only) over the SR period, so only a subset of affected young people will have access to a developed YG offer. Any youth employability provider will tell you that financial stability is crucial to getting YP to engage

Yes and clearly stuff is underway with the mentioned 1,000 'PtW advisers' and new 'support offer', but unclear e.g how much is redeployment, or where DEAs fit in? Is enough £ there early enough to sort out the v well documented issues in JCP for instance (work coach turnover, lack of specialists)

Though nothing extra in 26/27 when cuts come into effect. Hard to see this meets spirit of promise made last week to frontload support