Beth Shulman argues that for over 30 million Americans, jobs fail to help meet basic needs.
According to lawyer and author Beth Shulman, most of those living in poverty in the U.S. are the working poor. She writes: "There is a reigning American mythology that blunts any concern: that holding a low-wage job is a temporary situation, that mobility and education and time will solve whatever problem exists. The evidence, however, contradicts this myth. Most low-wage workers will never move up the ladder into the middle class....The US economy provides less mobility for low-wage earners...than the economies of France, Italy, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Sweden."
Thanks to Connie Chung
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