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Pamela Joshi; Abigail N. Walters; Clemens Noelke; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Policy debates about whether wages and benefits from work provide enough resources to achieve economic self- sufficiency rely on data for workers, not working families. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we find that almost two- thirds of families working full time earn enough to cover a basic family budget, but that less than a…
Descriptors: Family Income, Wages, Fringe Benefits, Budgets