U.S. Low Income Working families increasing
By: Population Reference Bureau
(January 2013) Economic security is out of reach for a growing number of working families in the United States, according to a new analysis of 2011 data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The number of low-income working families rose from 10.2 million in 2010 to 10.4 million in 2011, representing nearly one-third of all working families.
At the same time, the income gap between low-income working families and the nation's wealthiest working families is widening, according to Low-Income Working Families: The Growing Economic Gap, by the Working Poor Families Project, supported by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, Joyce, and C.S. Mott foundations.
The report defines low-income working families as those earning less than twice the federal poverty line. In 2011, the low-income threshold for a family of four with two children was $45,622.
Between 2007 and 2011, the share of working families who are low income increased from 28 percent to 32.1 percent (see figure). In 2011, the top 20 percent of working families received 10.1 times the total income received by the bottom 20 percent of working families, up from 9.5 in 2007. Read More
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
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