{"id":56728,"date":"2018-09-03T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/03\/higher-minimum-wage-will-boost-economy-of-cities-smith-institute\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T23:01:38","slug":"higher-minimum-wage-will-boost-economy-of-cities-smith-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=56728","title":{"rendered":"Higher minimum wage will boost economy of cities \u2013 Smith Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report calls on metro mayors and local authorities to drive living wage take-upA small rise in the minimum wage in Britain\u2019s main city regions would encourage employers to deploy workers more productively and help boost local economies by more than \u00a31bn, says a thinktank.According to the study, by the Smith Institute, employers need the spur of a higher minimum wage to shake them out of a spiral of low productivity and low growth that depresses company revenues and has trapped about 2 million workers on the current minimum wage of \u00a37.38 an hour, or \u00a37.83 for those aged 25 years or older. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/sep\/03\/higher-minimum-wage-will-boost-economy-of-cities-smith-institute\" target=\"_blank\">Higher minimum wage will boost economy of cities \u2013 Smith Institute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report calls on metro mayors and local authorities to drive living wage take-upA small rise in the minimum wage in Britain\u2019s main city regions would encourage employers to deploy workers more productively and help boost local economies by more than \u00a31bn, says a thinktank.According to the study, by the Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}