Nearly 100,000 Ohioans earning less than state minimum wage, By Randy Tucker, July 25, 2016, Dayton Daily News: “Ohio’s minimum wage is 85 cents higher than the federal baseline for hourly paid workers, but at least 93,000 workers in the state earned wages at or below the federal minimum last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ohio workers were among an estimated 2.6 million nationwide who earned at or below the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. That represents 3.3 percent of all hourly paid workers, according to a BLS report…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty