Low-Income Households

Rise of the low-wage breadwinner, By Annalyn Kurtz, February 6, 2014, CNNMoney: “A staggering number of American households are relying on low-wage jobs as their leading or sole source of income. Meet the low-wage breadwinner. There were about 21 million of them in the United States in 2011, according to a forthcoming study by University of Massachusetts Boston economists Randy Albelda and Michael Carr. Unlike other studies which often focus just on low-wage workers, the researchers looked at those who also live in low-income households. This way, they were able to strip out the teenager making $8 an hour flipping burgers but still living comfortably with his parents. Or the mom who works a part-time job in retail to supplement her husband’s otherwise ample salary…”