Study: Working Poor Cannot Meet Basic Needs
According to a new policy brief by The Working Poor Families Project, 32 percent of working families do not make enough money to support their basic needs. The brief defines families as “working” if they work at least 39 weeks per year. “……in 2011, more than 7 in 10 low-income families and half of all poor families were working. They simply didn’t earn enough money to pay for basic living expenses.” The brief attributes the rise in low-income working families – from 10.2 million families in 2010, to 10.4 million families in 2011 – to a lack of middle-class jobs. …
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