Working full time not enough to lift thousands of Florida's working parents out of poverty
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 14:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Even after working 40 or more hours a week, thousands of Florida parents would need to earn nearly double the state's current hourly minimum wage in order to break even, according to policy analyses conducted by researchers at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Findings from NCCP's latest brief, on Florida's minimum wage, underscore the importance of considering the consequences of policies—and policy interactions—on the lives of working families.