The Working Poor

A factory in the United States can contain about 1,000 workers. Many Americans will be unemployed when US factories are closed and transferred to other countries. The company also imports jobs. This is where employers hire immigrants and other people to work below the minimum wage. For this reason, many Americans insist on using other minimum wages, and low wage work is almost impossible to overcome the storm. As a result, many Americans are working full time below the federal poverty line.

Due to lack of working hours and low wages, poor workers are working people with incomes below a certain poverty line. Many of these are difficult because many people find and maintain their jobs, save money, and maintain self-esteem because wages are low and poor workers face many obstacles is. While the US public labor poverty rate is relatively stable over the past 40 years, many social scientists believe that the public tax rate is too low, and the proportion of workers facing serious economic difficulties is It has increased over the years. Economic changes, particularly from the manufacturing economy to the service economy, brought about polarization in the labor market. This means that there are more jobs above and below the revenue range, but less work in the middle

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2014, 82% of regularly full-time workers are experiencing at least one large labor market problem. Low returns are still the most common problem, accounting for 67% of low income, whether it is a major problem or a combination of other labor market issues. Whether the employment situation reflects supply-demand factors remains a problem. In the lowest wage country at the bottom of the distribution, the poverty rate is much higher. Compared with the state of middle wage, the state poverty rate of the minimum wage is nearly 5 percentage points higher.