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CA state workers say low wages mean no financial stability


CA state workers say low wages mean no financial stability

Many California state employees struggle to afford basic needs, per a recent study. They say low wages erode the stability of jobs in civil ...

For California state workers, stagnant wages erode stability of civil ...

" When accounting for total compensation, they were still underpaid by 17.2%." This is a major take away for me.

RELEASE: State workers struggle to make ends meet throughout ...

Yet, the Labor Center finds that the state does not provide living wages to a significant portion of its workforce. This has resulted in many of ...

State Workers Say California Paychecks No Longer Cover the Bills

California state employees say their salaries leave them broke and benefits such as pension and health no longer make the trade-off worth ...

State workers struggle to make ends meet throughout California

Despite providing services that are vital to the state of California, sizable shares of state workers represented by SEIU Local 1000 do not earn ...

California state worker pay fails to cover the essentials - CalMatters

To an alarming degree, the state is helping to create the very problems Californians expect it to address by paying wages so low that many ...

Is California's minimum wage enough for workers? - CalMatters

The Legislative Analyst's Office says 10% of California workers make no more than the $16 minimum wage and many can't afford housing.

Financial Health of Workers in Low-wage Jobs

Our findings suggest that investing in the financial health of workers in low-wage jobs – defined as earning up to $17 per hour in hourly ...

State Economic Challenges Reflect Policies Affecting Labor Market ...

But even here, the evidence doesn't indicate such a dismal state of affairs. Tight labor markets have boosted the earnings of lower-paid workers ...

Minimum Wage in California in 2024: Can You Make Ends Meet?

The steep price-tag that comes with living in the Golden State is owed to a few factors including desirability due both to the state's mild ...

Who Are California's Low-Wage Workers? - Legislative Analyst's Office

Largest: Home Health and Personal Care Aides. As shown in Figure 1, the state's largest low-wage occupation consists of home health and personal ...

A Job Does Not Guarantee Economic Security in California

In California in 2021, more than 2 in 5 Latinx workers (42%), one-third of Black workers (33%), and 35% of immigrant workers were paid low wages, compared to 30 ...

The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers

Yet our research has consistently revealed that executives do not understand or track the contribution that low-wage workers make. Instead companies have long ...

Minimum Wage is Not Enough - Home - Drexel University

Employees working full-time at minimum wage cannot afford basic necessities, such as food, housing, transportation, childcare, and healthcare in any location ...

MEET the LOW-WAGE WORKFORCE - Brookings Institution

financial sustainability is not generally expected of part-time work in the ... no universal definition of a low-wage worker, we use the often-employed ...

“California's $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage Is a Win-Win-Win ...

What you need to know: UC Berkeley economists' study shows that raising the minimum wage increased incomes for workers, with no job cuts and ...

Financial stress plagues low-income workers and impact productivity

About 21% of workers in low-wage jobs report that their high levels of financial stress negatively affects their productivity and job performance.

California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum ...

Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426000 health care workers to help balance the budget.

Ending the Tipped Minimum Wage Will Reduce Poverty and Inequality

Tipped industries in one fair wage states have higher growth, less inequality, and lower poverty for all workers.

California's new $20 minimum wage could leave the state with ...

Libertarian economist Scott Sumner, a California resident, believes the new mandate could hobble the economy beyond just the state's cost of ...