Survey: Low-wage workers gloomy about future, By Tom Raum and Jennifer Agiesta (AP), March 20, 2013, Miami Herald: “America’s lower-income workers have posted the biggest job gains since the deep 2007-09 recession – but few are bragging. As a workforce sector, those earning $35,000 or less annually are generally pessimistic about their finances and career prospects. Many see themselves as worse off now than during the recession, a two-part Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey of workers and employers shows…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty