{"id":44780,"date":"2014-06-25T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_john_sentamu_britain_could_lift_1m_out_of_poverty_with_living_wa\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:30:33","slug":"archbishop_john_sentamu_britain_could_lift_1m_out_of_poverty_with_living_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44780","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop John Sentamu: Britain could lift 1m out of poverty with living wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blueprint to lift one million people out of low pay by 2020 is published&#8230;[this week], and could adopted by Labour if it wins power at next year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>A commission chaired by Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, calls on the Government to champion the gradual introduction of a living wage higher than the national minimum wage in sectors that could afford it. But it rejects the idea of imposing a higher wages floor by law.<\/p>\n<p>The living wage is currently \u00c2\u00a38.80 an hour in London and \u00c2\u00a37.65 an hour outside the capital. The minimum wage is \u00c2\u00a36.31 an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/archbishop-john-sentamu-britain-could-lift-1m-out-of-poverty-with-living-wage-9557831.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blueprint to lift one million people out of low pay by 2020 is published&#8230;[this week], and could adopted by Labour if it wins power at next year\u2019s general election. A commission chaired by Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44780\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,175,83,589,149,199,168,597,114,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-york-john-sentamu","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}