He says the minimum wage needs to stay.
Affordability was calculated based on the minimum hourly wage needed to rent a two-bedroom apartment.
In England the gap between the wage needed and the average wage is the smallest in the north east.
However, the minimum wage still lags far behind the actual wage needed to live in the UK, which the Living Wage Foundation currently estimates to be £8.25 per hour.
She praised the companies that had signed up for the living wage and said the national minimum wage needed to rise faster as well.
"If we're serious as a society about poverty and work and decency, the minimum wage needs to eventually become a living wage".
Today, the parties disagree about whether budget deficits are problematic, whether the minimum wage needs to be raised, and whether campaign-finance reform is needed.
The living wage needs to be pitched at a higher level than Osborne has suggested and paid for by increased productivity.
"Do the tax credit changes announced today mean that the living wage needs to be higher to make sure people have enough?" Moore asked.
To keep constant the damage from the federal minimum wage, the federal minimum wage needs not an increase but an automatic reduction over the next couple of years in order for it to stay in parallel with market wages.
