What number is Job Seekers Allowance on the list of UK benefit spending?
11
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What is the Living Wage in London?
9.85
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What is the living wage outside of London?
8.75
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What is National Minimum Wage (Oct 15)?
6.70
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When was the national mimimum wage introduced?
April 1999
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When did Working Families Tax Credit become Child Tax Credit?
2003
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When was Job Seekers' Allowance introduced?
1996
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How much money was earmarked for the New Deal for Young People in 1998?
2620 million
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What percentage increase in employment of lone parents occurred between 1997 and 2000 as result of the New Deal for Lone Parents?
7%
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Between 1979 and what year did claims for unemployment benefit almost triple?
1985
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When was the Flexible New Deal introduced?
2009
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After May 2012, lone parents could only claim JSA or ESA rather than IS until their youngest child is what age?
5
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Who distinguishes between standard cheap labour and non-standard cheap labour?
King and Rueda
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Who said (1906): 'wages should be sufficiently high to enable the labourer to live in a manner consistent with the dignity of a human being'?
Ryan
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Who found that 1 in 5 workers were earning below the living wage nationally in 2012?
Pennycook and Whittaker
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Who found that 6.1 million working households were in poverty in the UK in 2012?
Aldridge
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Who says that social norms are now more tolerant of greater inequality and this may be leading to increasing inequality of rewards?
Krugman
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Who says that welfare reform in the UK is seen as less important in itself than as one component of a coordinated policy response to social and economic change'?
Walker and Wiseman
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What percentage of 16-21 year olds were earning less than the living wage in 2012?
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