2024年7月9日 · According to new data from Oxfam, there are more than 39 million low wage workers in the United States, defined here as any worker earning less than $17 an hour. This translates to 23 percent of the US workforce, or nearly one in four workers in the US.

Higher wages, together with more generous public subsidies or tax credits for low-income families, make child care more affordable, significantly reducing the impossible “choice” that many low-wage workers have to make between caring for …

2022年3月21日 · The crisis of low wages in the US. New research reveals that nearly a third of all workers in the US earn under $15 an hour. But women and people of color do much more than their fair share of low-wage jobs, and as wages lose value, it's becoming a …

2021年7月28日 · “Low wages” are defined as two-thirds of the median hourly wage for full-time, full-year male workers: $16.67 per hour in 2018. We then adjust this threshold to account for variation in...

2024年7月23日 · Low-wage workers have been fighting for a higher minimum wage for years. The federal minimum is currently $7.25 per hour and the federal tipped minimum for workers who earn part of their...

2021年6月16日 · The COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis undeniably impacted workers paid low wages the hardest, as millions lost jobs or income, while others continued to work in essential jobs, often at great risk to themselves and their families.

To define low-wage work, we use three different hourly wage cutoffs based on the federal poverty guidelines: a wage lifting a family of two (one adult and one child) above the official poverty threshold, a wage lifting a family of three (one adult and two children) above the threshold, and a wage bringing a family of three to 125 percent of the ...

2016年6月21日 · 41.7 million workers earn under $12 an hour and 58.3 million workers earn under $15 an hour—wages that are too low for families to thrive. Nearly half of all private sector workers lack a single paid sick day. Over 80 percent of low-wage private sector workers do not have earned sick time.

Many companies blame outside factors for the trouble they’ve been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government’s stimulus checks, the intrinsic nature of...

2019年11月22日 · That’s one of the main takeaways from our new analysis, in which we found that 53 million Americans between the ages of 18 to 64—accounting for 44% of all workers—qualify as “low-wage.” Their...