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Economic Insecurity and the Future for Low|Wage Workers


Economic Insecurity and the Future for Low-Wage Workers

Automation and the adoption of new workplace technology can exacerbate workers' financial insecurity when jobs change, earnings or hours are cut back.

Investing in Workers Can Further Ease Inflation and Boost Economic ...

The United States needs to invest in its workers—a proven method to grow the economy by growing the middle class.8. Increasing labor supply ...

What's Behind the Economic Insecurity of American Workers?

New technologies and the rise of the gig economy provided a convenient – if ultimately incorrect – explanation for low wages and economic insecurity. I argue ...

How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect ...

In general, increasing the federal minimum wage would raise the earnings and family income of most low-wage workers and thus lift some families ...

The Low-Wage Essential Worker: Occupational Concerns and ...

Low-wage workers also were likely to experience food insecurity, with 15% meeting federal definitions of low (9%) or very low (6%) food security. Furthermore, ...

Our employment system has failed low-wage workers. How can we ...

Surging unemployment claims show that our labor market, built for efficiency, can crumble in times of crisis at huge human and economic costs.

Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World - Russell Sage Foundation

By examining low-wage jobs in systematic case studies across five industries, this groundbreaking international study goes well beyond standard statistics to ...

Out on a Limb: Protecting Low-Wage Workers from Exploitation

Our new white paper, The Future of Work for Low-Wage Workers ... income insecurity. These are among the key findings in our new white ...

What triggers economic insecurity and who is most at risk?

For some workers, retirement comes with an anticipated reduction of income, one for which they have prepared for over time. However, low pension ...

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 ...

7 management practices that benefit low-wage workers | MIT Sloan

Management practices like hiring and recruitment, stable scheduling, and paid leave can promote economic mobility for low-wage workers.

Minimum Wage is Not Enough - Home - Drexel University

Low wages force workers to make tough choices regarding their health that have life-long impacts on them and their families. Food Insecurity. Low wages and food ...

Economic Security and Worker Well-being - CDC Blogs

As a result, only higher-income, full-time employees receiving workplace benefits stand a reasonable chance of achieving financial security. The ...

Raising the Minimum Wage Would Boost an Economic Recovery ...

Raising the wages of low-income workers will stimulate the economy; substantially lower the amount the country spends on social safety net programs such as ...

Low-Wage Workers Speak Out: - Shriver Center on Poverty Law

Good jobs must provide workers with reasonable measures of income and job security ... See Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, Illinois Future ...

Helping trapped low-wage workers, employers struggling to fill spots

FULLER: A large percentage of workers in the United States never succeed in developing a path that gives them economic security even though they ...

Good Jobs Challenge Community of Practice

Low-quality jobs cause chronic feelings of economic insecurity for the people who hold them, imposing constraints on employers, industries ...

Low-wage workers have seen historically fast real wage growth in ...

The tight labor market and pandemic measures such as unemployment insurance expansion, economic impact payments, and child tax credits have ...

Widespread Economic Insecurity Pre-Pandemic Shows Need for ...

Widespread economic insecurity partly reflects the nature of the U.S. labor market, where low pay and job instability leave many households ...

The American Dream in crisis: Helping low-wage workers move up ...

To create a future economy that works for everyone, we must focus ... Worker Power & Economic Security Workforce Development. Program.