Named Groups

Working Poor

People who are in the labor force either working or looking for work for 27 weeks or more in a year, but whose income fall below a given poverty line.

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Abstract

People who are in the labor force either working or looking for work for 27 weeks or more in a year, but whose income fall below a given poverty line.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Poor, Working

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2016

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Previous Indexing

  • Poverty (1975-2015)

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  1. M01w.987w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Working Poor. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000069602. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000069602
  2. Working Poor. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_poor
  3. Working Poor. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649011