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Getting poorer while working harder: The 'cliff effect'

  • Written by Susan R. Crandall, Director, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Getting poorer while working harder: The 'cliff effect'Average Walmart workers make twice the federal minimum wage but may still qualify for public benefits.AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills.

There is no place in the country where a family supported by one minimum-wage worker with a full-time job can live and afford a...

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