In-Work Poverty in the United States
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United States; poverty; employment; wages;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HME-2017-04-23 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-PKE-2017-04-23 (Post Keynesian Economics)
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