Poverty Wages

May 9th, 2010 • Category: Nation & World
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According to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, 25 percent of all jobs pay so low that a full-time worker cannot keep a family out of poverty. In the United States, the Black unemployment rate is twice that of the white unemployment rate, and the Hispanic rate is 1.5 times as high as the white rate.

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