Child Poverty Bill
12:00 pm
Mike Brewer: The minimum wage is very important for lone parents in keeping their income up, but it is one of the perversities of the way we measure poverty that the minimum wage is also very important for households at and around the median income, and for some well-off households. When you think about relative poverty, the minimum wage is not a great anti-poverty device, but it is very important for some low-wage earners.