The Working Poor Families Project policy brief: winter 2010-2011
Key Findings from 2009:
1) There were more than 10 million
low-income working
families in the United States,
an increase of nearly a quarter
million from the previous year.
2) Forty-five million people,
including 22 million children,
lived in low-income working
families, an increase of 1.7
million people from 2008.
3) Forty-three percent of working
families with at least one
minority parent were low-
income, nearly twice the
proportion of white working
families (22 percent).
4) Income inequality continued to
grow with the richest 20
percent of working families
taking home 47 percent of all
income and earning 10 times
that of low-income working
families.
