Why not just increase the family tax credit? That would increase the incomes of poor families without putting their jobs at particular greater risk.
The local calculation of the living wage includes cable TV and an overseas holiday.
Milton Friedman provides some critical truths on the living wage:
Do-Gooders believe passing a law saying nobody shall get less than [a minimum wage] is helping poor people (who need the money).
You’re doing nothing of the kind.
What you’re doing is to ensure that people whose skills do not justify that wage will be unemployed.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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