Add to ORKGIn the United States, it has been generally assumed that those who held a steady job could make ends meet but in today’s labor market nothing could be further from the truth. Workers in low-wage jobs can face double jeopardy: insufficient income to cover their basic needs and lack of access to job-related benefits to supplement their earnings. Public work supports — programs to help families fill basic needs such as health care, child care, food, and housing — can fill the gaps, and for many, they do. Still, in Massachusetts close to one out of every four individuals in a family with earnings does not have enough to meet basic personal needs, even with public supports
The premise of the welfare law enacted by Congress is that people living in poverty could vastly imp...
Anybody who has ever been employed can readily list the qualities of a good job. Some are easily ide...
[Excerpt] At a time when the nation is wrestling with the question of reforming welfare and forging ...
In the United States, it has been generally assumed that those who held a steady job could make ends...
In the United States, it is generally assumed that people who hold a steady job are able to make end...
In the United States, it is generally assumed that holding a steady job is enough to make ends meet....
Data reveal a growing number of Massachusetts workers who both earn low wages and live in low-income...
Low-wage workers have always faced difficulties earning enough to meet their basic needs in the cont...
Over 40 million jobs in the United States -- about 1 in 3 -- pay low wages ($11.11 per hour or less)...
Three decades of stagnating earnings for bottom decides of male wage earners and 1990s anti-poverty ...
Many full-time workers in the United States are unable to make ends meet. Government "work support" ...
Nearly 40 percent of American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federa...
For a growing number of families and workers in Western New York, low-wage work is the only—or the l...
Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills. There is n...
With dramatic shifts in the economy in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for famili...
The premise of the welfare law enacted by Congress is that people living in poverty could vastly imp...
Anybody who has ever been employed can readily list the qualities of a good job. Some are easily ide...
[Excerpt] At a time when the nation is wrestling with the question of reforming welfare and forging ...
In the United States, it has been generally assumed that those who held a steady job could make ends...
In the United States, it is generally assumed that people who hold a steady job are able to make end...
In the United States, it is generally assumed that holding a steady job is enough to make ends meet....
Data reveal a growing number of Massachusetts workers who both earn low wages and live in low-income...
Low-wage workers have always faced difficulties earning enough to meet their basic needs in the cont...
Over 40 million jobs in the United States -- about 1 in 3 -- pay low wages ($11.11 per hour or less)...
Three decades of stagnating earnings for bottom decides of male wage earners and 1990s anti-poverty ...
Many full-time workers in the United States are unable to make ends meet. Government "work support" ...
Nearly 40 percent of American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federa...
For a growing number of families and workers in Western New York, low-wage work is the only—or the l...
Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills. There is n...
With dramatic shifts in the economy in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for famili...
The premise of the welfare law enacted by Congress is that people living in poverty could vastly imp...
Anybody who has ever been employed can readily list the qualities of a good job. Some are easily ide...
[Excerpt] At a time when the nation is wrestling with the question of reforming welfare and forging ...