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...

The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a 2004 book written by Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler. From personal interviews and research, Shipler...

that 8.2% of regular employees made little enough to be considered working poor. In October 2009, Japan's Labor Ministry released a report which stated...

The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule practiced illegally by many companies in China. It derives its name from its requirement...

1540-5931.2010.00758.x. ISSN 1540-5931. Shipler, David K. (2004). The Working Poor: Invisible in America. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40890-8. Skeggs...

without increases in productivity leads to a rise in the number of "working poor", which is why some experts are now promoting the creation of "quality"...

Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between...

wealth due to various circumstances. Others may be working-class people, but are seen as the "genteel poor" if they are perceived as more refined than others...

football game.'" "Don't Look Now" displays Fogerty's concern for the working poor ("Who will take the coal from the mine? Who will take the salt from the...

with low income. The working class is sometimes separated into those who are employed but lacking financial security (the "working poor") and an underclass—those...

steady gaze—empathetic, self-aware, feminist—on the invisibility of white working poor mothers and the stigma they face as they struggle to secure a stable...

correlated to poor psychological health and with higher rates of depression and anxiety. To account for the serious effects of working a bullshit job...

class into the working poor and underclass. Service and low-rung manual laborers are commonly identified as being among the working poor. Those who do...

includes roughly a third of the population. (Typical Income: $25,000) The working poor class includes unskilled labourers, people in service jobs, and lower-paid...

wages in the industrialized world" which has "swelled the ranks of the working poor, most of whom are thirty-five or older." Jonathan Hopkin writes that...

talk on cell phones although the working Vance could not afford one. His resentment of those who seemed to profit from poor behavior while he struggled, especially...

working poor; and that the high and rising costs of the programs in general were insupportable. AFDC covered only 17% of the poor and 35% of all poor...

but the Industrial Revolution was marked by extremely harsh working conditions and poor housing until about the middle of the 19th century. At the time...

Service It Is Expensive to Be Poor. The Atlantic. January 13, 2014. Here's The Painful Truth About What It Means To Be 'Working Poor' In America. The Huffington...

Martha is a development practitioner and scholar who has worked with the working poor in India, South Asia, and around the world. Her areas of specialization...

Burkhauser, R. V. (2014). Why minimum wage increases are a poor way to help the working poor (No. 86). IZA Policy Paper, Institute for the Study of Labor...

considered to be in a household where the main income earner is working poor. Working poor is defined as someone who works more than 910 hours a year and...

a working class constituted by clerical and blue collar workers whose work is highly routinized, and a lower class divided between the working poor and...

Lahiri, Tripti (19 August 2010). "Much of Indian 'Middle Class' Is Almost Poor". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 23 November 2011. Weisman, Jonathan...

exists, where there is a wealthy upper class, a middle class, and the working poor class. These classes each have their own set of rules and values, which...

the Poor Laws, each parish would maintain its own workhouse; often these would be simple farms with the occupants dividing their time between working the...

out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. The events related in the book took place between...

Fumerton, Patricia (2006). Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226269559...

Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates – Japanese hiring practice Working poor – Working people whose incomes fall below the poverty line Craig, Ryan. "Employers...

poverty and overpopulation on Java, to provide opportunities for hard-working poor people, and to provide a workforce to utilize better the natural resources...