Add to ORKGLow-wage workers have always faced difficulties earning enough to meet their basic needs in the context of the complex financial tradeoffs between receiving public benefits and taking on any or more employment. However, welfare reform and skyrocketing housing and medical costs have exacerbated these challenges to low income families, policy makers, and the providers and agencies that serve them. Employment – often at low-wages – is imperative for most families and, even with supplementary public benefits, financial independence is not easy to achieve for many working families. Wages are too often too low to meet the high cost of living in the state, many benefits are sometimes difficult to get even when eligible, and eligibility for benefit...
With dramatic shifts in the economy in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for famili...
In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn,...
One-in-five U.S. jobs does not provide health insurance, a pension, or wages high enough to support ...
Low-wage workers have always faced difficulties earning enough to meet their basic needs in the cont...
In the United States, it is generally assumed that holding a steady job is enough to make ends meet....
In the United States, it is generally assumed that getting a job is enough to make ends meet. But, i...
Because there is a significant mismatch between low wage and low income, policies tackling the pover...
When compared to other developed nations, the United States fares poorly with regard to benefits for...
Nearly 40 percent of American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federa...
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...
Over 26 million American children live in low-income families. Nearly 60 percent of these children a...
Commissioned by the Economic Policy Institute for its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, this report desc...
The premise of the welfare law enacted by Congress is that people living in poverty could vastly imp...
Many full-time workers in the United States are unable to make ends meet. Government "work support" ...
With dramatic shifts in the economy in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for famili...
In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn,...
One-in-five U.S. jobs does not provide health insurance, a pension, or wages high enough to support ...
Low-wage workers have always faced difficulties earning enough to meet their basic needs in the cont...
In the United States, it is generally assumed that holding a steady job is enough to make ends meet....
In the United States, it is generally assumed that getting a job is enough to make ends meet. But, i...
Because there is a significant mismatch between low wage and low income, policies tackling the pover...
When compared to other developed nations, the United States fares poorly with regard to benefits for...
Nearly 40 percent of American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federa...
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...
Over 26 million American children live in low-income families. Nearly 60 percent of these children a...
Commissioned by the Economic Policy Institute for its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, this report desc...
The premise of the welfare law enacted by Congress is that people living in poverty could vastly imp...
Many full-time workers in the United States are unable to make ends meet. Government "work support" ...
With dramatic shifts in the economy in recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for famili...
In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn,...
One-in-five U.S. jobs does not provide health insurance, a pension, or wages high enough to support ...