DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE BY POVERTY STATUS, AND SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS: 2004–2006 (Percent)
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SINCE 1970S, IN THE U.S. Manufacturing Jobs: Declining
• Higher wages • Health benefits • Union support • Full-time • Upward mobility • Regular schedules Service Jobs: Increasing
• Replaced better jobs • Often no health coverage • Often part-time • Often not unionized • Limited career potential • Fluctuating schedules
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SOURCE: HEARTLAND ALLIANCE
Women who experience domestic abuse are more likely to live in poverty because: • He didn’t allow her to work or network. • Her skills atrophied.
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• Poor confidence and self-image. • Little or no access to cash, credit or a car. • No personal assets or even no home. • Abusers often harass at work.
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Costs of Prison:
People with criminal records have a much reduced prospect of stable employment and even adequate earnings over their life course. They are much likely to enter the cycle of poverty and be unable to provide
for their families, thus creating a drain on public resources.
Why?
• People don’t trust them. • Fear of legal liability. • Skills depreciated. • Network atrophied. • Little info about working world.
WHY ARE SINGLE-MOTHER HOUSEHOLDS POORER? 1. Women earn lower wages. 2. Only one adult earner. 3. Child care limits work hours. 4. Too many deadbeat dads.
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