Quote of the Day, June 21, 2012 Low-wage work is a pandemic. A third of our population ekes by on less than $36,000 for a family of three. That’s 103 million people living on[...]
Jun 21 2012
Quote of the Day, May 29, 2012 On top of how awful the wages are for so many jobs, wage theft adds up to an astonishing number of dollars because employers take brutal advantage of[...]
May 29 2012
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Georgetown Law professor, Peter Edelman, to discuss his decades of anti-poverty work and his new book, So Rich So Poor: Why It’s So Hard[...]
May 29 2012
Tagged: low-income, Peter Edelman, poor, poverty, poverty in america, safetynet, TANF, wage theft, wealth
Quote of the Day, May 25, 2012 The median job in this country pays now about $34,000/year, if you have it full time and you have it all year. That’s half the jobs in the U.S[...]
May 25 2012