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	Working poor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Working poor is a term used to describe individuals and families who maintain full-time jobs but remain in relative poverty due to low levels of pay and dependent expenses.
		Sowell claimed that "census data show that most people who are working are not poor and most people who are poor are not working", and that workers who were part-time or under the age of 25 should not be counted as working poor [4].
		In 2004, the bulk of the working poor in the United States and other western countries occupy unskilled and semi-skilled positions in the secondary labor market, predominantly in the service sector.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Working_poor (713 words)

	A Profile of the Working Poor, 2000
		Working wives were less likely than working husbands to be poor (in aggregate) because working wives were more likely to be in families with a second earner, usually a husband.
		The occupation in which one was employed continued to be related to the likelihood of being among the working poor in 2000.
		Almost 31 percent of the poor who worked during the year were employed in service occupations as their longest job of the year.
	www.bls.gov /cps/cpswp2000.htm (5354 words)

	Working and poor in the United States
		"Working Hard But Staying Poor: A National Survey of the Working Poor and Unemployed" is the latest in the "Work Trends" series, a quarterly report compiled by researchers at Rutgers University and the University of Connecticut.
		The typical employed person labeled by the researchers as “working poor” (with an income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level) is a far cry from the common stereotype.
		The survey of the working poor provides a further glimpse of the daily struggle tens of millions of families in the US must go through to provide for their children.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/aug1999/poor-a12.shtml (835 words)

	Problems Facing the Working Poor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Fourth, the working poor-are the fastest-growing segment of the poverty population.
		Most (52%) of the working poor would not b e able to work their way out of poverty even if they held full-time year-round employment because their wages are too low.
		Thus the working poor face not only the problem of holding jobs that pay adequate wages and provide steady earnings, but also more difficult problems of having health conditions that limit their ability to work.
	www.dol.gov /asp/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/conference/workingpoor/workingpoor_toc.htm (2182 words)

	Gotham Gazette: The Working Poor
		The working poor have no need of financial advisors: Only one-third are offered a pension or 401(k) retirement plan, and most have less than $500 in savings.
		Currently, the working poor have limited opportunities to climb out of poverty, according to Between Hope and Hard Times: New York’s Working Families In Economic Distress (In PDF Format), by the Center for an Urban Future and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy.
		Poor tenants have come to increasing rely on Section 8, a federal program of vouchers that pay part of the rent, but there is a long waiting list for the program, and a likelihood that its funding will be cut next year.
	www.gothamgazette.com /print/1183 (1100 words)

	Working Poor Families Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Working Poor Families Project was created in 2001 to assess state efforts to assist the working poor.
		The indicators included characteristics of the working poor families, and state policies and practices concerning education and training, employment opportunities, economic development, and conditions of employment and support.
		The Working Poor Families Project was developed and is managed on behalf of the funding foundations by the consulting firm of Brandon Roberts + Associates.
	www.aecf.org /initiatives/fes/workingpoor (308 words)

	The Plight of the Working Poor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The strong economy of the last few years has sparked some rebound in the wages of bottom-tier working men, but a substantial gap remains between their incomes and those of male workers whose earnings are closer to the national average.
		The push to accord more benefits to poor but working families is without doubt a strong incentive for households to send at least one adult into the workforce.
		But for low-income adults who are already working parents, these supports can actually serve as a deterrent to marriage: a working single parent who marries another worker usually will suffer a substantial reduction in benefits, because the couple's combined income reduces what they can receive.
	www.brookings.edu /comm/ChildrensRoundtable/issue2.htm (2959 words)

	Working poor suffer under Bush tax cuts - 9/26/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		To help pay for federal tax cuts, many programs that served the working poor were reduced or eliminated as the deficit grew.
		A six-month Detroit News investigation showed that as a result of the withering government assistance, working poor and destitute Americans are increasingly likely to be placed on waiting lists for help, receive reduced services, or be denied service entirely.
		For the poor, inequities of the Bush tax cuts are further exacerbated by the long-standing disparities in the Social Security tax, which has increased nine times since 1977.
	www.detnews.com /2004/specialreport/0409/26/a01-284666.htm (1050 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: The Working Poor -- April 1, 2004
		Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Shipler observed some impoverished working Americans and their families for years to research his new book, "The Working Poor." Ray Suarez speaks with Shipler about his book and the interlocking problems that challenge the climb out of poverty.
		He's focused on the daily lives of individual working Americans and their families, a followed them for years to illustrate the interlocking problems that beset them-- problems that make it so hard to climb out of poverty.
		Half the poor families in America are headed by single women, so there right there you have an economic problem, because if you have one wage earner at seven or eight dollars an hour, you're not making enough to support you very well and lift you above the poverty line.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june04/poor_04-01.html (1317 words)

	BW Online \| May 31, 2004 \| Working...And Poor
		There's also the fact that about one-third work only part-time, and more than a third are 18- to 25-year-olds, who may still live at home but may eventually work their way up the ladder.
		Perplexing, too, are signs that many jobs the working poor hold won't, over time, lead them out of their straits.
		In addition, there's little sustained outcry from the working poor themselves, who often are overwhelmed by their personal difficulties and politically disengaged.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/04_22/b3885001_mz001.htm (3696 words)

	PEOPLE LIKE US: Social Class in America
		The fact that anyone is working this job at all can be taken as prima facie evidence of some kind of desperation or at least a history of mistakes and disappointments, but it's not for me to ask.
		In the prison movies that provide me with a mental guide to comportment, the new guy doesn't go around shaking hands and asking, "Hi there, what are you in for?" So I listen, in the cars and when we're assembled in the office, and learn, first, that no one seems to be homeless.
		Her boyfriend's sister, she tells me on the drive to our first house, watches her eighteen-month-old for $50 a week, which is a stretch on The Maids' pay, plus she doesn't entirely trust the sister, but a real day care center could be as much as $90 a week.
	www.pbs.org /peoplelikeus/resources/essays7.html (2049 words)

	Poverty and Exclusion - Canada’s Working Poor
		It is interesting to note that among the persons who work many hours (910 hours or more during the year), those who belong to certain high-risk groups are more likely to have a low income than those who do not belong to these high-risk groups.
		In summary, although the working poor generally do not stay in a low-income situation for as long as other low-income persons, most of them experience a period of financial uncertainty that is more than temporary.
		However, their work conditions are much less favourable than those of workers who do not have a low family income.
	policyresearch.gc.ca /page.asp?pagenm=v7n2_art_09 (2793 words)

	Poverty Fact Sheet Series - The Working Poor, HYG-5703-98
		The working poor can be further categorized into three more subsets: low wage families not receiving cash assistance, low wage families receiving cash assistance, and families moving off welfare (Stoneburner and Real, 1997).
		Ohio data on the working poor relate to families in poverty and include people who are ill, disabled, retired, and people in school.
		As a consequence, the act of working on a full-time job does not guarantee that families and individuals will not be poor.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/5000/5703.html (1400 words)

	Motorola in Arizona - Working Poor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Here’s a way for you to help the working poor in Arizona and be eligible for a $200 Arizona State tax credit through United Way’s Helping the Working Poor Fund.
		It, along with other organizations that provide assistance to the working poor, will allow your charitable contribution to qualify for the tax credit.
		Contributions to the working poor fund will go to not-for-profit 501(c)3 organizations who provide services for needy families such as medical care, child care, food, clothing, shelter or other assistance that helps individuals meet basic needs.
	www.motorola.com /us/arizona/uw2002/workingpoor.html (1234 words)

	Eurofound: Working poor
		However, data at EU level suggest that 17% of the self-employed and 6% of employees are classified as poor (earning less than 60% of the median equivalised household income).
		The problem of working poverty has become more pressing in a European Union with 25 Member States, given the higher incidence of the phenomenon in the new Member States.
		The report identifies different sub-groups of working poor, and analyses some of the welfare state arrangements designed to tackle the issue.
	www.eurofound.eu.int /working/employment/workingpoor (245 words)

	CHILDREN OF THE WORKING POOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The extent to which children of the working poor--whose families earn less than 200% of the federal poverty level--have access to fewer health resources or experience more barriers to care than other children has been obscured because they are usually grouped with poor or uninsured children who lack health resources for different reasons.
		Among the working poor, one of every six children is foreign-born and one of every three born in the U.S. has a foreign-born parent.
		Children in all working- poor families are more likely to be uninsured than any other children, and more likely to do without needed care.
	www.ucop.edu /cprc/HCaccess.html (925 words)

	The Myth of the Working Poor by Steven Malanga, City Journal Autumn 2004
		Harrington had seen the poor as victims because they could find no work; his more radical allies, especially a group associated with Columbia University's social-work school, argued that compelling the demoralized inner-city poor to work or take part in training that would fit them for work, instead of giving them unconditional welfare, was itself victimization.
		Pooh-poohing the work ethic and the dignity of labor, the authors derided calls for welfare reform that would require recipients to work, because that would be mortifying to the poor.
		Consider some of the former welfare recipients Shipler profiles in his chapter called "Work Doesn't Work." Christie, a day-care worker, describes herself as "lazy" for never finishing college (her brother, who did, is an accountant, and her sister is a loan officer).
	www.city-journal.org /html/14_4_working_poor.html (5005 words)

	The working poor \| MetaFilter
		November 30, 2003 1:27 PM the working poor A new book by Beth Shulman called The Betrayal of Work” argues that hard work is just not cutting it in America anymore.
		The thing about hard work is that it takes some time for it to build up, you have to work hard for a long time before it pays dividends.
		When I worked in fast food, I would have to wake up at 4:30 AM on weekends (when I was only 16) then work for 8 hours getting yelled at by customers, cleaning up horrible messes, and consistently burning myself.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/29912 (7753 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Working Poor, Living Poor (February 28 - March 6, 2002)
		She works at the center without pay as a volunteer Monday through Friday, but cleans an airline's offices on weekends as an employee of One Source, a janitorial agency on Palo Verde.
		She would like to work 40 hours a week, but her employer uses her only 16, at $7 an hour (after deductions, that comes out to $5,715.84 a year).
		Mistal and the Perezes are among the working poor.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-02-28/feat.html (3388 words)

	Working Poor Q&A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		United Way established and certified the Helping the Working Poor Priority Area as a qualifying charitable organization with the State of Arizona in order to provide the tax credit benefit to our donors.
		The legislation specifies that eligible organizations spend at least 50% of their budget on basic needs to residents of Arizona and must be certified by the State of Arizona.
		The Helping the Working Poor tax credit reduces your overall state tax liability and is not impacted by your tax withholdings during the course of the year.
	www.nazunitedway.org /Working_Poor_QA.htm (621 words)

	Spirituality & Health: The Working Poor
		According to Shipler, many of the working poor are just a step away from catastrophe.
		The desperate plight of the working poor is exacerbated by the growing gap between the rich and the poor with a median net worth of $833,600 among the top 10 percent and just $7,900 for the bottom 20 percent.
		One reason they remain invisible is that many Americans blame the poor for their plight and prefer not to be reminded of them.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/bookreview/item_8542.html (488 words)

	Chicago Tribune \| The working poor
		Ware keeps an eye on her watch because she can't afford to be late for work, not even if the reason is to pick up food.
		Theresa and Rocky Ware toil in the ranks of the working poor, a growing category of millions of Americans who play by the rules of the working world and still can't make ends meet.
		A larger percentage of Americans are working poor, and the numbers have been growing for nine years," said Robert Forney, CEO of America's Second Harvest.
	www.chicagotribune.com /news/nationworld/chi-0404250538apr25,0,5892418.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed (903 words)

	The Wages of Fear
		Shipler carefully wraps the dimensions of working poverty (inadequate wages, oppressive working conditions) in the lives of real people who are at times the authors of their own troubles and at others victims of forces beyond their control.
		Poor workers struggle against formidable odds to address one or two problems, only to be undone by the other forty that pull them down into poverty traps.
		She is the author of No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (1999) and A Different Shade of Gray: Mid-Life and Beyond in the Inner City (2003).
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040315/newman (1016 words)

	TomPaine.com - Losing The American Revolution
		They worked hard all their lives but never had much money - my father's last paycheck before he retired was $96 and change, after taxes.
		What has happened to working Americans is not the result of Adam Smith's benign and invisible hand but the direct consequence of corporate money, ideological propaganda, a partisan political religion, and a string of political decisions favoring the interests of wealthy elites who bought the political system right out from under us.
		Come to think of it, go out and argue that working people should have more time off from the endless hours of tedious work that devours the soul and the long commutes that devastate families and communities.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/20050606/losing_the_american_revolution.php (4661 words)

	Working poor in Bush’s America
		In other words, fully one-quarter of the U.S. workforce doesn’t get paid enough, even for full-time work, to keep their families out of poverty without help--other household members working, a second or third job and so on.
		This is the "working poor." All told, 43 million people live in low-income working families with children, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
		Even if the jobs picture begins to turn around, that won’t necessarily have much of an impact on the lives of the working poor.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/502/502_02_WorkingPoor.shtml (552 words)

	This is the Fight of Our Lives
		We reported on how they were coping with the wrenching changes in their lives, and we stayed with them over the next ten years as they tried to find a place in the new global economy.
		The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand." This is a lie.
		What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0616-09.htm (4143 words)

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