Definitions for working poor
work·ing poor

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1. Working poor

   The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line. Depending on how one defines "working" and "poverty," someone may or may not be counted as part of the working poor. While poverty is often associated with joblessness, a significant proportion of the poor are actually employed. Largely because they are earning such low wages, the working poor face numerous obstacles that make it difficult for many of them to find and keep a job, save up money, and maintain a sense of self-worth. The official working poverty rate in the US has remained somewhat stable over the past four decades, but many social scientists argue that the official rate is set too low, and that the proportion of workers facing significant financial hardship has instead increased over the years. Changes in the economy, especially the shift from a manufacturing-based to a service-based economy, have resulted in the polarization of the labor market. This means that there are more jobs at the top and the bottom of the income spectrum, but fewer jobs in the middle. There are a wide range of anti-poverty policies that have been shown to improve the situation of the working poor.

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1. working poornoun

   A class of people in America whose demographic spans across the spectrum of Age, ethnicity,gender, race, citizen status etc. whose earned low wage is below the established poverty level. And whose participation, and contributions to the country's economy are glaringly undervalued and disparingly undercompensated by both the political establishment in thier considerations or lack of, in proposed legislations. As well as by America's corporate/ executive/elite class whom benefit mostly by employment of working individuals in non full time, no benefits, low wage, high turnover, low advancement positions emerging out of US corporate class, streamlined processes, automation, and Multi-nationality,cheaper foreign labor, and low punitive incentive to invest in it's workers, at a time when profits and executive compensation and bonuses have grown exponentially.

   
   

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of working poor in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of working poor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of working poor in a Sentence

1. Ivanka Trump:

   If you were raised working poor like me, this book will inspire you, specifically, it will inspire you to challenge the next rich woman you see to a broken beer-bottle fight.

2. Adam Drewnowski:

   Minorities and the working poor in Canada benefit from a better network of social support, obesity has everything to do with economic inequalities and economic insecurity.

3. Candace Owen:

   When I see people leaving food outside their home, it brings a tear to my eye. The level of generosity people have in this community, it just replenishes your heart in a way, the working poor is everyone – youth to teens to college to elderly on tight budgets – it’s just really nice to see [the participation.].

4. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   If you don't help the mentally ill, they end up in a prison or in a jail or on the streets. There's a societal cost to that that's ongoing, if you don't help the working poor to figure out a way to become independent, there's a societal to cost to that as well.

5. Van Duyne:

   It's $1.6 billion of wages he just knocked outwith a signature, it's thousands and thousandsof jobs that were just decimated overnight. You think about the folks that Democrats claim that they represent-- working poor, people on fixed incomes -- and literally with onemovement of the pen hehas now raised their electricity rates,raised their gas rates. ... They're nowgoing to have their utility costs go skyrocket.

References

1. ^ Wikidata
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