Who are the Working Poor

In class, we talked about all aspects of the concept of poverty. By reading our books and researching and accessing personal text online, I am very interested in the elements that make up the "working poor", its actual definitions and so on. Before entering the statistics, the simple definition of "working poor" is that a group of people work for about 27 weeks or more in a year, or search for work, but their income is lower than poverty (USDAVIS , 2013).

Most of the people living below the poverty line will not function, but this includes children, elderly people and disabled people. Of the poor 18 to 64 years old who had no obstacle in school or attended school in 2014, 51.8% worked part-time in the previous year in the previous year. However, only 25.2% of these "happy" poor people are working for over 50 weeks. The relationship between poverty and the labor market is complicated. High wages and stable full-time jobs can free many people from poverty. But over the past few decades, wage stagnation and full-time employment rates remain low at the bottom of the wage distribution in the United States, which is at least below the public poverty line, especially in single parent families.

In order to solve the problem of poverty, it is necessary first to know who is the poor. I will explain the poor people living in poverty and the age of labor, using recently available poverty data. This analysis shows that the majority of deviations from full-time, full-time employment are easily understood from the perspective of disability, education, nursing care factors and other factors.

In this analysis, I explained the continuation of labor poverty in the United States and added new data from National Equality Atlas. Most of the indicators of "job shortage" count those who have worked at least for the past 6 months, including those who work at part-time, season, even even unemployed. In our analysis, we use more rigorous indicators to calculate only full-time workers from 25 years old to 64 years old with poverty rate less than 200%. The user can investigate the poverty rate of 100%, 150% and 200% of the poor, but in this analysis "working poor" is defined as full time worker under 200% of the poor .

Returning to public poverty alleviation, we will delve deeper into the characteristics of poor people of working age. The poor in working age is a diverse group (Figure 4). More than 40% of poor people of working age are working in 2016 or actively seeking work. The largest working-age group living in poverty is an employee with less than 28% of full-time and full-time employees. These workers can work full time for part of that year, during that year, or both. One-tenth of adults with working-age living among the poor are working full-time. 4% of adults with working age living in poverty are unemployed and are looking for work