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This is a normal post So let me get this straight...
People earning below the median hourly pay rose by 250,000
and at the same time 500,000 people were no longer unemployed?

I look forward to Millibands solution to reversing this trend.

[edit] I'm not an economist but if you're using the median to decide what is low pay are you not by default always going to have a large amount of people in that category?
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sun 26 Oct 2014, 14:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Half the population will be below the median
But the report refers to "less than two-thirds of the median wage", so there is a bit of a downwards skew.

(Median is a much, much, much better measure of 'equality' than mean in this situation. If you use the mean then as the rich get richer the mean will shift so much that it will look like everybody is getting much better-off).
 (I helped save b3ta! Ghoti Fingers, Sun 26 Oct 2014, 15:03, , Reply)
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This is a normal post all those zero hourses innit

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 26 Oct 2014, 15:48, , Reply)