article_snippet.sent: Campaigners say the figures shine a light on how companies making huge profits are relying on the taxpayer to ensure Campaigners staff have enough money to put food on the table.
article_snippet.sent: what the Government accepts is needed by many people, particularly those with children, to make ends meet.
article_snippet.sent: The charity’s report complains:
article_snippet.sent: The Rev Karen Rooms, Area Dean for Nottingham South and member of the Citizens UK Council, said: ‘The figures revealed by this research are shocking, as the true scale of the subsidy of big business becomes clear.
article_snippet.sent: At a time of austerity when all sectors of society have to make savings it seems obscene that big business isn’t playing big business part to help the country recover.
article_snippet.sent: Last week, David Cameron said businesses that can afford to pay it ‘should consider doing so’.
article_snippet.sent: Boris Johnson, the London mayor, said it was ‘madness’ that large employers paid chief executives huge salaries while large employers lowest-paid workers were subsidised by the taxpayer.
article_snippet.sent: the former Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn, chairman of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission said: