The soaring cost of living leaves full-time workers on the minimum wage unable to afford basic necessities.
That was the discovery of a new cost-of-living index by Anglicare Australia, which measures the extent to which the minimum wage covers basic necessities - excluding monthly or quarterly utility, insurance or phone bills costs.
A worker on full-time minimum wage has only 57 dollars left, after their weekly base fee.
That amounts to just 73 dollars for a family of four, with two full-time minimum-wage workers.
And single parents with one child on minimum wage are in deficit, reduced by 180 dollars after paying rent, transportation, food, education, and childcare.
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