Word: pollinators
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...volunteers in soup kitchens and homeless shelters in Baltimore noticed that families with full-time wage-earners were still unable to afford food and housing, says Robert Pollin, professor of economics at the U. Mass.- Amherst...
...that definition of a living wage was criticized as too low, Pollin says, because it did not take into account any measures of what it is to live ?ecently?s opposed to living at the poverty level...
...Some cities currently base their living wage calculation on a family of two, some on a family of three and some on a family of four, Pollin says. But the current trend in defining the living wage figure is to allow a family to live above the national poverty level...
...living wage note the 1968 minimum wage figure, which would currently reach at least $7.92 per hour when adjusted for inflation. In contrast, the current federal minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, though the national economy is nearly 60 percent more productive than it was three decades ago, Pollin says...
...Pollin says the living wage movement is gaining interest among economists...