What can worker training do? Plenty, but career ladders need to lead to rewarding jobs.(POVERTY, WORK, AND REWARD)
American Prospect, The, May, 2007 by Fitzgerald, Joan; Sum, Andrew
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ONE OUT OF EVERY SIX FULL-TIME U.S. workers earns less than 125 percent of the poverty line--under $18,865 a year for a family of three. And the share of low-wage workers is considerably higher in many of the sectors with the most job growth: retailing, hotel and food services, health care, and human services.
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Full-time workers in the bottom tenth of the wage distribution saw their weekly earnings decline by about I percent over the past six years, reversing the trend of rising wages that occurred from 1995 to 2000. For low-skilled youths, finding even a bad job has become more ...
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