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Download full textWisconsin Univ., Madison. Center on Wisconsin Strategy. – 2000
Noting that 182,000 of Wisconsin's children are living below the poverty line, this report documents factors affecting the working poor of Wisconsin, combining labor market and wage data with profiles of families and their children from communities throughout the state. The report documents the surge in poverty-wage jobs in Wisconsin over the past…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Parents, Employment Patterns, Family Characteristics
Upjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. – 1982
Social statistics may exaggerate the degree of hardship caused by labor market problems. Yet, in many ways social statistics underestimate the degree of hardship caused by extended unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. Therefore, new measures are needed to reassess long-term and cyclical labor market developments, the changing status of…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
