Study: About 27% of working families fall below poverty line
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More than a quarter of all working families in the United States, including 20 million children, are considered low-income or poor, an independent report said yesterday.
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The U.S. poverty rate fell for the first time this decade but more people are living without health insurance and the bulk of the nation's poor are children, government data released on Tuesday showed.
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Nearly half of employed people in the world live on less than two dollars a day and another 500 million live on less than a dollar, according to the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO) World Employment Report 2004-2005.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- Women who become caregivers to elderly parents are more likely to end up living in poverty later in life, claims a study by researchers at Rice University in Houston.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use...
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People on low incomes have similar diets to the rest of the population, a government report states.
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A minimum-wage paycheck falls well short of what many Tri-State residents need to cover rent, according to a study released Monday by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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Taxes designed to protect the environment would hit low income families the hardest, new research has found.
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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WASHINGTON -- The number of poor Americans grew by 1.3 million last year, according to a sobering and politically sensitive Census Bureau report issued Thursday.
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THE REGION Union representation in Massachusetts dropped to 13.5 percent of the employed last year, down from 416,000 or 14.2 percent in 2003, according to information released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, the number of employed workers in Massachusetts dropped to 2.92 millon, from 2.93 million in 2003. The federal agency reported that across the ...
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CONYERS, Georgia  - Just because you earn a bit above minimum wage doesn't mean you're not one step away from financial ruin, according to people on low wages in two U.S. states.
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The US Census Bureau announced Thursday that the number of citizens living in poverty and without health insurance rose in 2003. The government agency says the poverty rate rose from 12.
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More workers than ever were living in poverty last year, and greater efforts need to be made to create more and better jobs if the world is going to achieve the target of halving poverty by 2015, according to a UN report released yesterday.
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Many working families still feel no benefit from the US economic recovery, the Economic Policy Institute says. While business is improving, average wages have fallen, job satisfaction has declined and the
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About 47 percent of parents in families earning less than $40,000 a year are offered health insurance through their employers &#151; a 9 percent drop during the past decade.
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It becomes more difficult for US low-wage workers to afford appropriate housing. â There are only four counties in the country - Wayne, Crawford, and Lawrence counties in Illinois and Washington County, Florida