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Bookmark or Share- Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically ...Real wages of low-wage workers grew 13.2% between 2019 and 2023. Wage growth among low- and middle-wage workers over the pandemic business cycle has outpaced not only higher wage groups over the same period, but also its own growth compared to the prior four business cycles.
- Low-wage workers have seen historically fast real wage growth in the ...When we examine the low-wage workforce in terms of who and how many workers in the U.S. were paid less than $15 an hour, the results are astounding: In 2022 more than 20 million workers, or 15% of the workforce, were paid less than $15 an hour (Zipperer 2023).
- How low wages hurt families and perpetuate povertyHigher wages, together with more generous public subsidies or tax credits for low-income families, make child care more affordable, significantly reducing the impossible “choice” that many low-wage workers have to make between caring for their children and working. Low wages are unhealthy.
- Millions of low-wage workers in the US are struggling to survive41.7 million workers earn under $12 an hour and 58.3 million workers earn under $15 an hour—wages that are too low for families to thrive. Nearly half of all private sector workers lack a single paid sick day. Over 80 percent of low-wage private sector workers do not have earned sick time.
- The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers - Harvard Business ReviewMany companies blame outside factors for the trouble they’ve been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government’s stimulus checks, the intrinsic nature of low ...
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