{"id":14713,"date":"2024-03-31T23:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/minimum-wage-rise-gives-boost-to-2-7-million-lowest-paid\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T23:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:54:01","slug":"minimum-wage-rise-gives-boost-to-2-7-million-lowest-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/minimum-wage-rise-gives-boost-to-2-7-million-lowest-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage rise gives boost to 2.7 million lowest-paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/BDD5\/production\/_131779584_gettyimages-1355237717-2.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Minimum wage rise gives boost to 2.7 million lowest-paid\" title=\"Minimum wage rise gives boost to 2.7 million lowest-paid\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rising cost of living prompted the independent Commission to recommend a bigger rise in the minimum wage. The government accepted the recommendation, saying it meant the Conservatives&#8217; target to &#8220;end low pay&#8221;, by lifting the minimum wage to two-thirds of average earnings, had now been met.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rising cost of living prompted the independent Commission to recommend a bigger rise in the minimum wage. The government accepted the recommendation, saying it meant the Conservatives&#8217; target to &#8220;end low pay&#8221;, by lifting the minimum wage to two-thirds of average earnings, had now been met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/BDD5\/production\/_131779584_gettyimages-1355237717-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[1919,20395,2458,19362,572,19363],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14715,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions\/14715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}