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The working-poverty trap.(LOW-WAGE AMERICA: TWO VIEWS)
IMAGINE working full-time, but nonetheless living in poverty. Hard as this may be for many of us to imagine, almost a quarter of the nation's workforce in 2001 earned less than $8.70 an hour. Full time, full-year work at this wage placed a family of four very close to the official poverty line. Most workers with earnings in this range are among the 42 percent of American workers who have never attended college.
On average, workers without a college degree earn somewhat more than poverty-level wages, but their wages are still quite low. Moreover, trends for the past few decades have been dismal. Prospects for these workers have been markedly inferior to those for ...
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