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A growing number of low-paid workers living in Nottingham are turning to food banks to fight to make ends meet, it was said.
According to the latest government figures, some 11,000 people in the city, or 9 percent of the workforce, earn the lowest wage.
Data shows that in Nottingham East alone, about 4,100 people earn the legal minimum.
The national living wage, set at £ 7.83 per hour, is the legal minimum for people aged 25 and over. The national minimum wage is the minimum for
younger people than this, and ranges from £ 4.20 per hour (for 16-17 year olds) to £ 7.38 (for ages 21-24).
Steve Battlemuch, former chairman of the Nottingham Council of Trade Unions, Nottingham City Councilor for Wollaton, said: "These numbers are shocking and I think they reflect what many labor unions and politicians have been saying for a long time.
"We live in an economy where wages are low and people living in poverty earn their living, and we are seeing an increase in the number of people going to food banks and clothing banks to survive." C & # 39; is an indicative indictment of the economy we have right now. "
Nigel Webster, head of Bestwood and Bulwell Food Bank, said there had been a significant increase in the number of people who had used the food bank in the past five years.
About nine percent of visitors to the food bank five years ago had a job, which doubled to reach more than one in five visitors last year.
He said: "This is becoming a growing problem.One of the myths is that everyone who comes here is unemployed, but that's because they can not make ends meet.
"It has grown over the years and we are seeing it more and more now, where someone is working."
Data are based on parliamentary constituencies, with the 11,000 workers based in Nottingham North, Nottingham East and Nottingham South.
Including the constituencies of Rushcliffe, Gedling and Broxtowe, 19,400 workers earn the lowest minimum wage, representing just under eight per cent of the labor force.
Chris Needham, regional organizer of the GMB union in the Midlands and East Coast, described the problem of low wages and the need to visit food banks as a "problem that we must try to solve" and that he needed to invest more in the city.
He added, "I would say that there are many more people than that, in my opinion, who collect the minimum wage and use food banks."
In Nottingham North, 3,900 people, or 10% of the workforce, earn the legal minimum. In Nottingham South it is 2,900, or eight per cent.
Although not all regions of Nottingham draw relatively badly, the situation is even worse in other parts of the UK.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central – where about 21% of the labor force works on the national minimum living wage or the national living wage.
Salary – the worst rates of all.
Areas with a high minimum legal wage are likely to have high numbers of student jobs, service sector jobs (such as bar staff and waiters) and seasonal work, as well as than levels of deprivation higher than the average.
The data are based on the constituencies where the individuals live.
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