Quote of the Day, January 17, 2013 excerpted from Low-Income Working Families: The Growing Economic Gap, a report from The Working Poor Families Project by Brandon Roberts, Deborah Povich, and Mark Mather
There is a common misconception—magnified during the recent presidential election—that low-income families are “takers” who do not work, instead relying on government assistance to meet their needs. But in 2011, more than 7 in 10 low-income families and half of all poor families were working. They simply didn’t earn enough money to pay for basic living expenses.
