It found that being a parent brings a wage "penalty" for women, and a wage "bonus" for men.
More than 13 million Britons, 22 per cent of the population, are now living on less than 60 per cent of the median (average) income despite at least one parent bringing a wage home.
Scott Coltrane has studied fathers for three decades and has found that fatherhood brings a wage premium while motherhood brings a penalty -- unless dads act like moms and are active parents.
Katherine Chapman, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said: "Today's new living wage rates bring a welcome pay rise to thousands of workers across the UK.
He has filled his mind with reading and his own ideas but, at the age of 11, his mother needed him to go out to work and bring home a wage.
He was a good enough worker and although he didn't much care for the job, his was a time with little work and less security; to work was better than not, to bring home a wage was always welcome, what with his father broken since the war and three younger children younger at home, his mother's face grey with worry and the reflection of other people's dirty laundry.
"If you put in the effort to bring in a wage, you will be better off; if you save money your whole life, you'll be rewarded; if you start your own business, we'll be right behind you … if you risk your life to fight for your country, we will honour you.
Representative Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican who is a vigorous critic of the Senate plan, said it would bring a "huge influx" of low-wage foreigners who would become a burden on the federal government.
And, crucially, there are now more people in work than ever before – and there is nothing more vital to eliminating poverty than having a job and bringing in a wage.
It says the one change to labour laws that has been brought in, a wage protection system to ensure workers are properly paid, is being implemented slowly.
