Document Type

Newsletter

Publication Date

4-2007

Issue

Number 1, 2007

Keywords

SDSU, Cooperative Extension Service, College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences, USDA, Working Poverty

Description

Do more jobs mean increased community wellbeing? Not necessarily if the jobs are low-paying and keep people poor.
The “working poor” have increased in many South Dakota counties. Several of those counties have also made the list of U.S. counties that have changed most drastically in working poverty percentages between 1990 and 2000 (Anderson 2006).

Pages

3

Format

application/pdf

Publisher

South Dakota State University

Language

en

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