Getting poorer while working harder: The 'cliff effect'
- Written by Susan R. Crandall, Director, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills.
There is no place in the country where a family supported by one minimum-wage worker with a full-time job can live and afford a...
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