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Danziger sees increase in working poor given high unemployment and resistance to raising minimum wage

September 08, 2011

The ranks of the working-age poor are at the highest level since the 1960s, when the war on poverty was launched. Sheldon Danziger says that without shifts in priorities, “there are going to be a lot of working poor for the foreseeable future.”

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