{"id":37355,"date":"2017-05-31T07:15:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37355"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T06:15:31","slug":"britain-needs-a-pay-rise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/31\/britain-needs-a-pay-rise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain needs a pay rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2017\/05\/britain-still-needs-pay-rise-real-wages-falling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TUC has published a map <\/a>showing the loss in average earnings by UK employees since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/31\/britain-needs-a-pay-rise-2\/screen-shot-2017-05-31-at-07-14-00\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00-550x547.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00-550x547.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00-301x300.png 301w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00-768x764.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00-226x225.png 226w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00-133x132.png 133w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-31-at-07.14.00.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain needs a pay rise and that's not on every party's agenda at the forthcoming election. It should be. But some prefer exploiting labour to rewarding it. That's an unacceptable choice that has gone on for too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TUC has published a map showing the loss in average earnings by UK employees since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Britain needs a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/31\/britain-needs-a-pay-rise-2\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}