Engel, Rafael and Wexler, Sandra and Kim, Soobin and Tabachnick, Mariel and Ballentine, Kess and Woo, Jihee and Goodkind, Sara and Petracchi, Helen and Shook, Jeffrey
(2020)
Can Healthcare Workers’ Family Incomes
Support Their Families?
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Abstract
Despite living in a country with great wealth, the economy does not work for millions of American workers, leading many to focus on raising the minimum wage. An alternative is offering a living wage, or a wage sufficient to meet basic needs without relying on public benefits. One method to determine such a wage is to use basic needs budgeting to estimate costs for households of different compositions, residing in different geographic areas. This study examines whether a living wage is sufficient to eliminate hardships experienced by lower-wage healthcare workers. We describe the hardships
healthcare workers’ households experience and hypothesize that households with incomes at/above the threshold for meeting basic needs, compared to those below it, report fewer hardships.
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