A new report from the Child Action Poverty Group says 15,000 teenagers are working to put food on the table and attending school at the same time.
The report suggests that minimum wage should be raised to $26 an hour to equal the living wage in order to stop this from happening.
Alan Johnson from the child action poverty group told Heather Du Plessis-Allan that the work comes "potentially at the expense of what they could achieve at school."
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