How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans One in four workers in the United States have jobs that
pay poverty wages, provide minimal or no benefits, and allow little flexibility and time for quality childcare.
Despite the great wealth of the United States, the standard working conditions for these workers are lower than those of comparable workers in other industrialized nations. Inadequate wages are only one part of the problem in low-wage jobs. Low-wage jobs are not just quantitatively different than better paying jobs, but qualitatively different
Editorial DU Post - The Betrayal of Work Blue-collar work before the Raygun administration offered a pathway to middle class.
The employment picture is bleak. Since Enron plundered pensions and retirement investments, employees adversely impacted stayed in the workforce instead of retiring. For years, there have been no reporting about dismayed college graduates competing with high-school graduates for low-wage jobs.
No one honestly address or count individuals effected in the crisis of more high school and college graduates entering a workforce than there's been job creation.
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