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Bookmark or Share- A profile of the working poor, 2019 - FRASERThe working poor are people who spent at least 27 weeks in the labor force but whose incomes still fell below the official poverty level. In 2019, there were 6.3 million working poor in the U.S., down from 7.0 million in 2018, and the working-poor rate was 4.0 percent, the lowest in history.
- An Overview of America’s Working Poor - PolicyLinkLearn about the growing number and share of full-time workers who are poor or near-poor in the U.S., especially among Latinos. Explore the causes and consequences of working poverty and the policies that can address it.
- Who are the working poor in America? - Center for Poverty and ...The working poor are people who work but still live below the poverty line. Learn about their demographics, wages, labor market problems and the connection between poverty and wages in the US.
- A profile of the working poor, 2022 - U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsIn 2022, the working-poor rates for men and women living alone or with nonrelatives were 6.0 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively. The working-poor rate for unrelated individuals was higher for Hispanics (8.8 percent) and Blacks (7.8 percent) than for Whites (6.2 percent) and Asians (6.2 percent). (See table 7.)
- Working poor - WikipediaThe working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. These are people who spend at least 27 weeks in a year working or looking for employment, but remain under the poverty threshold.
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