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‘PEOPLE JUST AREN’T PAID ENOUGH’

’ve experienced hard times in my life. My husband left 10 years ago. As a single parent – my daughter was 19 by then – I was stacking shelves, working seven days a week and I’d have about £10 ($13) left to spend on food. We’d be eating pasta with margarine, or noodles for 9p (12

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