article_snippet: Labour's Ed Balls claims wages are worth £1,600 less in real terms than Labour's Ed Balls were in 2010 .
article_snippet: In the Commons today, Ed Balls declared: 'For all the Chancellor's hubris, yesterday's Budget has changed nothing for working people in our country. '
article_snippet: Ed Balls uses gross weekly earnings, which is the amount workers are paid BEFORE tax and benefit changes take effect.
highlights_snippet: Ed Balls says workers were £1,600 worse off in April 2014 than in 2010 .
  