We went out into Manchester to ask People on the Street abut the rise to National Living Wage and whether it was enough to help people in the cost of living crisis
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name's Theo Huston-Burton.
00:02Today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about the National Living Wage.
00:06And that's because after last week's budget it's now set to go up,
00:10however not quite in line with inflation.
00:12Inflation is rising a bit quicker than the National Living Wages.
00:15We want to know if people think that's right, whether it should be closer tied to inflation,
00:19or whether people are just happy that they've seen a rise in wages.
00:22I do think that makes sense, because otherwise in the future as inflation continues to increase,
00:28the living wage is going to be increasingly disproportionate to it.
00:32I feel like as a guy, like me personally, it's my duty to just earn more money.
00:40Especially like I'm studying at uni at the moment and having to think about coming out and dealing with that.
00:47Yeah, as someone who's got like a full-time job on a salary it's still, you know, not easy anyway.
00:53So it's not just, you know, students that have issues, it's everyone.