The latest Economist/Ipsos MORI poll shows that British voters’ anxiety about the economy and unemployment is at its lowest in years, as growth and jobs have returned. Poverty is now a bigger worry than unemployment. Many of those new jobs are low-paid; 95% of the positions created in 2012-14 paid less than the (voluntary) “living wage”, which during this period rose from £7.45 ($11.81) to £7.85 per hour.

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