Stories of America's Working Poor Living paycheck to pay check, millions of low wage workers struggle to take care of family needs, pay for food and rent.

Working Poor in America Low-wage workers are everywhere in the US. It's time for Congress to come together and ensure people earn a decent wage. Millions of Americans do arduous work in jobs that pay ...

The scholars conclude that a key indicator of class inequality shows that racial gaps between poor, working class blacks and whites are falling. Meanwhile, class gaps are growing among whites.

In “ America’s Work Problem: How Addressing the Reasons People Don’t Work Can Reduce Poverty,” I explore poverty in America from a work perspective.

We need to raise the minimum wage in order to change the shameful American reality of people working full time but still not earning enough to lift them and their families out of poverty.

Their work suggests about 10 percent of working households are poor. Additionally, households led by women, minorities or individuals with low education are more likely to be poor, but employed.

Dale Maharidge traveled the country interviewing America's working poor, and said many of the people he met were "very astute about how to survive" in the current economy.

Food stamp work rules harm older, poor Americans "Some 16.5 million Americans over age 65 . . . are living at or below 200% of the federal poverty level" ...

Some 46.2 million Americans now live in families where someone is working but earning less than the poverty line: $11,702 a year for an individual or $23,021 for a family of four.

Roughly 46 million people in the U.S. lived below the official poverty line in 2011. About 10.4 million of them are considered part of the "working poor." ...

Working poor families in America Over 60 million Americans live in working families that struggle to survive on low wages. Every day, millions of Americans in working families feel the impact of a ...