Cleveland Plain-Dealer: Working Families Earn More Food Stamps

Saturday, February 24, 2007 | News

…Ohio lost another 17,000 manufacturing jobs in 2006. The same year, the state added 21,000 service jobs. Many Americans now hold those lower-paying jobs.

“We’re seeing a kind of hollowing out of middle-class jobs,” says Margy Waller, director of The Mobility Agenda in Washington, D.C., which conducts research on low-wage work. “We’re just about to release a report that will show that about one in three jobs pays under $10 an hour”…

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