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>>Also, most poor people (78%) don't have even one job, let alone two (nor are they even looking for one). First of all, that isn't right from the data you lin
by cpleppert 13y ago
>>Also, most poor people (78%) don't have even one job, let alone two (nor are they even looking for one).
First of all, that isn't right from the data you linked to. 59% of people below the poverty line don't have a job or aren't in the labor force(Table 6). Secondly, it turns out that not everyone in a family is a wage earner so there is no way to extrapolate from that data point to how many are just living off welfare.
If you look at table 1 in the bls report you can see that those in poverty & and in the labor force without a job were 17%.
- yummyfajitas 13y ago10.4 million working poor / 46.2 million poor == 22% in the labor force. You get up to 37% if you count people who looked for a job at least once a year, but less than half the year. In the past I've corrected for the fraction of children. It makes no real difference. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130441 The fact of the matter is that peterwillis's description of the poor is simply inaccurate for most poor people, most of the time.