Working Poor Struggle to Make Ends Meet. Tim Jones.
by Jones, Tim; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 32Business. Publisher: Chicago Tribune, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Food banks | Food relief | Poor -- Medical care | Poverty | Working poorDDC classification: 050 Summary: "After tapping friends and family, maxing out their credit cards and sufficiently swallowing their pride, at least 23 million Americans stood in food lines last year [2003]--many of them the working poor, according to America's Second Harvest, the Chicago-based hunger relief organization. The surge in food demand is fueled by several forces--job losses, expired unemployment benefits, soaring health-care and housing costs, and the inability of many people to find jobs that match the income and benefits of the jobs they lost." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses the growing number of working poor in America and presents their stories.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Working Poor Struggle to Make Ends Meet, May 3, 2004; pp. n.p..
"After tapping friends and family, maxing out their credit cards and sufficiently swallowing their pride, at least 23 million Americans stood in food lines last year [2003]--many of them the working poor, according to America's Second Harvest, the Chicago-based hunger relief organization. The surge in food demand is fueled by several forces--job losses, expired unemployment benefits, soaring health-care and housing costs, and the inability of many people to find jobs that match the income and benefits of the jobs they lost." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses the growing number of working poor in America and presents their stories.
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