One in five public sector organisations said their answer to the higher wage threshold would be to make bigger cuts in staff numbers than previously planned.
Eighteen percent of children live in families with poverty-level incomes, and fully 39% of children live in families whose incomes don't meet the more realistic living wage threshold criteria.
There are solutions: last year the senior executive of a firm with large public sector contracts acknowledged to me that if local councils made it an iron cast condition of all contract bids that proposals must meet a specified, high wage threshold for workers, including cleaners and care workers, then businesses would have no choice but to relent.
Several US states and even more cities voted to raise the minimum wage threshold during the 2014 midterm elections.
Therefore, the information gap is likely to affect labor market choices, in particular the definition of the wage threshold for a job offer to be deemed acceptable.
But President Obama plans to raise the wage threshold to up to the potential level of $970 per week.
The momentum at the local and state levels is likely to have ripple effects in the nation's capitol, where President Obama has proposed raising the federal wage threshold to $9 an hour and liberal Democrats in Congress have embraced hiking it to over $10 an hour, including an annual cost-of-living adjustment.
The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.
The improvement in household budgets follows the introduction in April of the wage, a higher minimum pay threshold of £7.20 an hour for those aged 25 and over.
He is a prominent opponent of raising the minimum wage, of paid sick leave, of efforts to raise the salary threshold for overtime pay, and of Obamacare.
The commission supported greater pay transparency and recommended that large companies be required to report the proportion of their workforce paid below a low pay threshold, such as the living wage.
