Group calls for ‘living wage’

A conference by the Think-Tank for Action on Social Change will hear calls later today for the Government to introduce “a living wage”.

Professor Tony Atkinson will also tell the conference on Economic Equality at Croke Park that a State training inheritance for all young adults and a marginal rate income tax of 65% for the highest paid would boost equality.

The concept of a living wage has been advocated in the US and Britain and other countries to help narrow the widening gap between the best paid and the lowest paid.