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And the Poor Get Poorer

McDermott, John | November 14, 1994 issue

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Nearly three-fourths of the 2.5 million new jobs created in the U.S. this year pay more than the national average of $15.50 an hour. Those high-paying new jobs are largely managerial and professional. Hourly pay of at least the bottom half of the work force continues to slip. At the present time, roughly 30 million employees, one-quarter of all working Americans, earn only enough to place them below, at or just above the poverty line. There are now about 5 million full-time-worker heads of family who earn less than the official poverty-line income.

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WAGES; POVERTY; INCOME; EMPLOYEES; LABOR supply; UNITED States

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