Working poor -- United States
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Working poor -- United States
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- Maid, hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive, Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
- You want fries with that?, a white-collar burnout experiences life at minimum wage, Prioleau Alexander
- Changes in low-wage labor markets between 1979 and 2005, [Nabeel Alsalam, Molly Dahl, and Thomas DeLeire]
- Risks that come with increasing earnings for low-income workers receiving safety net programs, perspectives of working parents, by Nina Chien [and 3 others]
- Wage inequality and the stagnation of earnings of low-wage workers, contributing factors and policy options, Jane G. Gravelle
- The impact of immigration on African Americans, Steven Shuilman, editor
- Scratch beginnings, me, $25, and the search for the American dream, Adam Shepard
- Going for broke, living on the edge in the world's richest country, edited by Alissa Quart and David Wallis
- Can working families ever win?, Jody Heymann ... [et al.] ; edited by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers for Boston Review
- The effects on employment and family income of increasing the federal minimum wage
- Broke, USA, from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. : how the working poor became big business, Gary Rivlin
- Characteristics of low-wage workers and their labor market experiences, evidence from the mid- to late 1990s : final report, Peter Schochet, Anu Rangarajan ; submitted to Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Dept. of Health and Human Services; submitted by Mathematica Policy Research
- First hearing in series on moving America's families forward, hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, February 11, 2015
- The betrayal of work, how low-wage jobs fail 30 million Americans and their families, Beth Shulman
- Nickel and dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- From poverty to opportunity, how a fair minimum wage will help working families succeed : hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session ... March 12, 2014
- Food insecurity among working-age veterans, Matthew P. Rabbitt and Michael D. Smith