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Working and Poor in the USA

by Bill Quigley Buy vermox without prescription, “Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937

Millions of people in the US work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the US needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.

One, vermox buy. How many people work and are still poor. Buying vermox online, In 2011, the US Department of Labor reported at least 10 million people worked and were still below the unrealistic official US poverty line, an increase of 1.5 million more than the last time they checked, buy vermox no rx. The US poverty line is $18,530 for a mom and two kids, buy vermox without prescription. Since 2007 the numbers of working poor have been increasing. Buy vermox from us, About 7 percent of all workers and 4 percent of all full-time workers earn wages that leave them below the poverty line.

Two. What kinds of jobs do the working poor have, canada vermox. Buy vermox without prescription, One third of the working poor, over 3 million people, work in the service industry. Workers in other occupations are also poor: 16 percent of those in farming; 11 percent in construction; and 11 percent in sales. Order vermox from canada, Three. Which workers are most likely to be working and still poor.

Women workers are more likely to be poor than men, low cost vermox. African American and Hispanic workers are about twice as likely to be poor as whites, buy vermox without prescription. College graduates have a 2 percent poverty rate while workers without a high school diploma have a poverty rate 10 times higher at 20 percent. Generic vermox online, Four. What about benefits for low wage workers.

Ten percent of US workers earn $8.50 an hour or less according to the US Department of Labor, vermox for sale. Buy vermox without prescription, About 12 percent have health care and about 12 percent have retirement benefits. Nearly one in four get paid sick leave and less than half get paid vacation leave. Real vermox without prescription, Five. What rights do the working poor have.

Most workers have a right to earn at least the federal minimum wage of $7.50 an hour, cheap vermox pharmacy. Tipped employees are supposed to get at least $2.13 each hour from their employer and if the worker does not earn enough in tips to make the $7.50 minimum wage, the employer must make up the difference, buy vermox without prescription. People who work more than 40 hours in a workweek are entitled to one and one-half of their regular pay for each hour of overtime. Purchase vermox online, Six. What about wage theft from the working poor.

Many low wage workers have part of their earnings stolen by their employers, find discount vermox online. Buy vermox without prescription, Examples include not paying people the full minimum wage, not paying required overtime, stealing from tipped employees, or fraudulently classifying workers as independent contractors. A survey of over 4000 low wage workers in Chicago, Buy vermox without prescription, Los Angeles and New York conducted by university and non-profit researchers found: 26 percent of the workers were paid less than the minimum wage in the previous week, a majority were underpaid by more than $1 an hour; a significant number worked overtime the previous week and were not paid the legally required overtime; many were required to come early or stay late and work “off the clock” and were not paid for it; almost a third of the tipped workers were not paid the minimum wage and more than 1 in 10 tipped workers had some of their money stolen by their employer or supervisor.

Seven, vermox pharmacy online. What is a living wage in the US. Vermox in malaysia, Dr. Amy Glasmeier of Penn State University has created a Living Wage Calculator that estimates the hourly wage needed to pay the cost of living for low wage families in the US, buy vermox without prescription. It breaks down the cost of living by state and locality across the nation. In New Orleans, buy generic vermox online, a mom with one child needs to earn $17.52 to make ends meet. Vermox non prescription, In New York, the mom with one child should earn $19.66 to make it. If we now realistically calculate the number of people who work and do not earn a living wage, cheap vermox internet, the numbers of working poor in the US skyrocket to several tens of millions.

Eight Buy vermox without prescription, . Buy vermox once daily, What about jobs for the unemployed and underemployed.

The US Labor Department estimated recently that 13 million people were unemployed. Another 8 million people were working part-time but wanted full-time work. Even more millions who are not working are not counted in those numbers because they have been unemployed so long.

A study by Northeastern University found that in the poorest families, unemployment is nearly 31 percent, buy vermox without prescription. Underemployment is also much more of a problem in poor homes, with over 20 percent of those workers reporting they are working part-time but seeking full-time work.

Our nation can do so much more. We say our country values work. It is time to do something about it. Buy vermox without prescription, If the US truly values work, we need to support the millions of our sisters and brothers who are low wage workers. Steps needed include: raising the minimum wage to a living wage; protecting workers from getting ripped off; making it easier for workers to organize together if they choose to; and creating jobs, public jobs if necessary, so that everyone who wants to work can do so. Many are already working on these justice issues.

For those interested in learning more about this, see the websites of Interfaith Worker Justice, the National Employment Law Project, and the National Jobs for All Coalition.

By Bill Quigley. Bill teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans and is Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Thanks to Rob Dordan and Kim Bobo for help with this. A version with sources is available. You can reach Bill at quigley77@gmail.com .