The homeless are mostly working poor who need jobs that pay a living wage.
So, does paying an employee a living wage make a difference when it comes to profits?
In other parts of the world, service employees are often paid a living wage.
Unison also wanted a guarantee that the Living Wage would automatically increase across all Scotland's Councils.
The living wage is to be introduced for almost 2, 000 of the council's lowest paid workers.
The mayor said paying the London Living Wage helps to boost the capital's economy.
However, I just as much love having given my employees a living wage and great benefits.
The Labour-controlled council says the living wage increase will not reduce funding for services.
It also ensures the continued arrival of newly illegal immigrants similarly eager to earn a living wage.
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The minister concluded that he would continue "to evangelise the living wage in discussions with local government".
Downing Street backed firms paying a living wage, but said restricting contracts in this way could be illegal.
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So, I asked the PR person for this campaigner what they thought a living wage in China was.
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He said although employers were within the law by not paying the living wage, there was a "moral aspect".
The London living wage was introduced in 2005 and more than 100 London-based employers have signed up to it.
You'll also see Labour showcase the big Labour councils across the country that are becoming living wage employers themselves.
He called on the WLGA to introduce a "living wage" that would "give a fillip to the local economy".
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"Our living wage campaign involving unions, students and voluntary organisations is sometimes quietly, sometimes noisily, changing lives, " they wrote.
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If today's study is correct, far more - around 20% - earn somewhere between the minimum and a living wage.
Boris Johnson says the same thing about the many companies that have decided to pay the living wage in London.
The GMB claimed the firm was failing to pay corporation tax and was not offering a "living wage" to employees.
That's when you'll see the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announcing the new living wage for London, with great fanfare.
It's employing an awful lot of people at a living wage, a wage they can live a middle-class life on.
And the public housing is actually a subsidy(ph) to these local capitalist owners because they don't pay people a living wage.
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Last week I was even offered a management position, but had to decline since a living wage could not be negotiated.
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Barclays has paid the living wage in London since 2007, while 19 local authorities have been accredited as "living wage employers".
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Demand Three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment and a twenty dollar hourly minimum wage for those who choose to work.
Push for a federal safety net for the jobless that offers public service at a living wage for a couple of years.
Deputy leader Adrian Ramsay said the Greens would cut fuel bills, expand the living wage and protect public services from government cuts.
He understood that if he paid his workers a living wage, they would be able to afford to purchase his Model T.
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So, when it comes to the living wage, politicians are really looking for a free lunch: or rather, a free pay rise.
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