CALIFORNIA LOW WAGE STUDY
May 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIECALIFORNIA tax-payers are spending US$10.1 billion per year to subsidise the state's growing low-wage economy, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education. It claims that of the families receiving social assistance in California, 53 per cent of funds went to working families to cover health and child care costs, rather than to unemployed and retired people.Approximately US$5.7 billion of the money went to families with workers earning under US$8 per hour, whilst those with workers ...
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