- Recovery has created far more low-wage jobs than better-paid ones, By Annie Lowrey, April 27, 2014, New York Times: “The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work, at places like strip malls and fast-food restaurants. In essence, the poor economy has replaced good jobs with bad ones. That is the conclusion of a new report from the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, analyzing employment trends four years into the recovery…”
- Low-wage jobs proliferate as middle class ones disappear: job growth patterns since the recession, By Olivera Perkins, April 30, 2014, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Lower-wage jobs have continued to proliferate since the Great Recession, as the economy creates fewer of the mid-wage jobs that have for generations been the backbone of the middle class, according to a new report. The report released this week by the nonprofit National Employment Law Project, or NELP, said that lower-wage industries accounted for 22 percent of the jobs lost during the recession, but 44 percent of employment growth over the past four years. Median hourly pay in lower-wage industries ranged from $9.48 to $13.33, according to the report…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty