Low-Income Workers- Victims of Growing Term Paper

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Keeping all these facts and figures in mind, it would not be wrong to conclude that low wage is one of the more serious problems of the country and needs urgent remedy. The government needs to address the issue properly and effectively keeping in view the current demographic trends.

References

1. Anthony Bimba, The Molly Maguires: The True Story of Labor's Martyred Pioneers in the Coalfields (1950; reprint, New York: International Publishers, 1975), pp. 54-66.

2. Ibid., p. 65.

3. Ibid., p. 66.

4. Edward Wolff, "Recent Trends in Living Standards in the United States," New York University and the Jerome Levy Institute of Economics, New York, 2002 p. 1.

5. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Tomorrow's Jobs. Online. Available: http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm. Accessed: September 9, 2006.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid.

9. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey.Online. Available: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat37.pdf. Accessed: September 9, 2006.

10. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001), p. 220.

11. Michele Conlin and Aaron Bernstein, "Working... And Poor," BusinessWeek Online (May 31, 2004), Online. Available: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_22/b3885001_mz001.htm.

Accessed: September 9, 2006.

12. Waldron, Roberts, and Reamer, "Working Hard," p. i.

13. Economic Policy Institute, Minimum Wage Issue Guide: Facts at a Glance. Online. Available: http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_minwage_minwagefacts.

Accessed: September 9, 2006.

14. Andrew Lee, Center for Budget and Public Policy Priorities, Principles for Economic Stimulus. Online. Available: http://www.cbpp.org/1-6-03tax3.htm.

Accessed: September 9, 2006.

15. David Card and Alan B. Krueger, Myth and Measurement: Measurement:

The New Economics of the Minimum Wage (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995);

16. Oren Levin-Waldman, "The Minimum Wage Can Be Raised: Lessons from the 1999 Levy Institute Survey of Small Business," Policy Note 1999/6 (New York: The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 1999),….....