The Ministry of labour is its monthly snapshot on the labour market on Friday, and economists expect that it is to show that employers of the country in March around 190,000 jobs added. With an unemployment rate that has stubbornly stuck close to 9 percent, these workers could be considered lucky.
But many of the jobs added in the retail, hospitality and home health care, to some categories, to name a few are unlikely that enough for workers to cover the cost of basics such as housing, utilities, food, health, transport and, in the case of working parents pay child care.
A separate report published Friday trying to go to show traditional measurements such as the poverty line and minimum wage what people to earn to reach a basic standard of living.
The study, wider opportunities for women, a nonprofit group, is based on an analysis of the Group and some State and local have to since 1995 over how much income it takes partners meet basic without public aid must lead. The new study aims to set thresholds for economic stability as mere survival, and save for retirement and emergencies into account.
"We wanted to recognize that there is a cumulative effect, which would affect the lifelong economic security," said Joan A. Kuriansky, executive Director of the broader ways, whose Bericht is called, "the basic economic security tables for the United States." "And we've all seen, how many times we have emergencies, which we are not prepared to" she said, especially during the recession. Redundancies or other health crises can "definitely start to drag us into poverty."
According to the report of a single worker needs an income of $30,012 per year - or just over $14 an hour - to cover basic expenses and save for retirement and emergencies. That's close to three times the 2010 of national poverty of $10,830 for a single person, and almost twice the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
A single worker with two small children have an annual income of $57,756, or something more than $27 an hour and economic stability to reach a family with two working parents and two young children, $67,920 per year, or about $16 an hour per employee to acquire.
That compared with the national poverty line of $22.050 for a family of four. The latest data from the Census Bureau found that 14.3 percent of Americans below the poverty line lived in 2009.
A need for an index saw greater opportunities and its consulting partners, the families must earn as much if, for example, they want to save for their child's College education or would like for a down payment on a House.
"It is an index that asks how a family can have a little sympathy for the middle class," said Michael Sherraden, Director of the Centre for social development at Washington University in St. Louis, who consulted on the project and helped in the development of projections for how much income families, need to focus on savings. "If we families being able to be stable and not their lives disrupted and have a little protection and backup and able to educate their children, are interested in, the way to this which we think."
The figures come as a surprise to working families who are fighting. Tara, a medical biller, turned it down, her last name, type, said $15 earned an hour, while her husband, who works in building maintenance, makes $11.50 an hour. The couple, in Jamaica, Queens, life have three sons, at the age of 9, 8 and 6.
"We have tried to reduce things to a lot", she said. But the pair was not end Fund to visit food pantry in Richmond Hill every Saturday meet on their wages, and the River. No money for savings "I hope that I the Lotto soon will be hit," she said.
To develop their income reviews, examines the report authors Government and other publicly available data, to the basic cost of living. For housing the biggest cost is usually a family together with utilities, metropolitan area came about paid in each of the authors with "A decent standard search of shelter that accessible, is that with limited income" average data of the Department of housing and urban development, equivalent to the rent at the 40th percentile among all rent a monthly costs identified the country.
They chose a "low cost" food plan of the dietary guidelines of the Department of agriculture, and calculated cost commute "ownership of a small sedan provided." She charged expenses for workers with and without employer based services for health.
Mrs Kuriansky said that revenues do not take gadgets such as gifts and meals from projections into account. "It is a very simple budget," she said.
Of course, need change the income drastically depending on where a family lives. Mrs Kuriansky, said the group worked on the development of data for States and metropolitan areas.
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