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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People

 
Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor.
January 23, 2012

“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.”  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937
Millions of people in the US work and are still poor.  Here are eight points that show why the US needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.
  
  • One.  How many people work and are still poor?  
  • Two.  What kinds of jobs do the working poor have?
  • Three.  Which workers are most likely to be working and still poor?
  • Four.  What about benefits for low wage workers?
  • Five.  What rights do the working poor have?
  • Six.  What about wage theft from the working poor?
  • Seven.  What is a living wage in the US? 
  • Eight.  What about jobs for the unemployed and underemployed?
        

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