However, even more dire is the need for basic agricultural infrastructure, such as decent roads, electricity, irrigation, and access to decent seed.
But they symbolise a broad commitment to basic standards of decent living.
How can we function as a nation when something as basic as a decent place to live is out of reach for most people in a community?
The living wage outside London is now £7.85 after the rates were raised this week to ensure they continue to provide a basic but decent standard of living.
Published to mark living wage week, the research also finds that younger workers, women and part-timers are more likely to be paid less than the living wage, a voluntary threshold calculated to provide a basic but decent standard of living.
Both voluntary rates are calculated to provide a basic but decent standard of living.
It is important not to confuse the national living wage with the living wage, which is a higher, voluntary rate calculated to provide a basic but decent standard of living.
Sentamu, who chaired the Living Wage Commission, chided those who have not brought in the voluntary pay threshold, which is calculated to provide a basic but decent standard of living.
In the latest Ethical Consumer buyers' guide to high street clothes shops we gave Monsoon and New Look top rating for their supply chain policies, meaning that the companies have made at least a basic commitment to providing decent working conditions for their overseas workers.
We hope California and other states will be willing to do what the federal government has not — which is to set basic standards to guarantee domestic workers decent working conditions and pay.
The women inside, who bunk eight to a room in basic but decent conditions, were unafraid and in good humour.
