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Download fileWages, taxes and top-ups: the changing role of the state in helping working families ends meet
This paper: looks at the changing influences of pay, benefits and
taxes in allowing working families to reach minimum
living standards from the late 1990s to the most recent
recession; outlines and evaluates ways to help more low-earning
families achieve an adequate income; assesses how the three main political parties’ tax
policies would affect families on lower incomes.
Funding
Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Research Unit
- Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)
Citation
HIRSCH, D. and VALADEZ, L., 2014. Wages, taxes and top-ups: the changing role of the state in helping working families ends meet. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 34pp.Publisher
Joseph Rowntree Foundation © Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014ISBN
978 1 909586 34 5Publisher version
Language
- en