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The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. These are people who spend at least 27 weeks in a year working or looking for employment, but remain under the poverty threshold.
Working class as well as working poor households may fall below the poverty line if an income earner becomes unemployed. [1] [4] In any given year roughly one out of every five (20%) households falls below the poverty line at some point while up to 40% may fall into poverty within the course of a decade. [3]
[69] Generally, those in blue-collar and pink-collar occupations are referred to as working class in the class models referred to in this article. Dennis Gilbert places 13% of households among the "working poor" with 12% being in the "underclass". Thompson & Hickey place roughly 17% to 20% of households in the lower classes.
The Working Poor: Invisible in America, Knopf (2004), hardcover, 322 pages, ISBN 0-375-40890-8; Zweig, Michael, Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret, Cornell University Press (2001), trade paperback, 198 pages, ISBN 0-8014-8727-7 "America's Forgotten Majority" Joel Rogers and Ruy Teixeira, The Atlantic June, 2000
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour .
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a 2004 book written by Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler. From personal interviews and research, Shipler presents in this book anecdotes and life stories of individuals considered the working poor. [ 1 ]