Workers Independent News: One in Three U.S. Jobs Are Low-Wage, Low-Benefits Jobs

Friday, March 16, 2007 | News

A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research says 44 million, or 1 in 3 U.S. jobs, are low-paying jobs and most of them have no benefits. Margy Waller is with the center’s Mobility Agenda.

Margy Waller: “What we’re seeing really is a hollowing out of the middle class. And we are seeing a decline in those jobs that people can move into.”

Waller says rising productivity has not increased wages and these jobs, with wages below $11.11 an hour, need to be improved.

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