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Struggling to Survive on Low Wage Jobs
Posted on November 15, 2004
Appalshop's Struggling to Survive presents the challenges faced by individuals getting paid minimum wage. The film underscores the need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage in rural Kentucky. A yearlong series on NPR tells the stories of individuals all over the country who are struggling to survive:
In America, it is possible to work full time but not make a living — more than 20 million U.S. workers earn less than $9 an hour. At those wage levels, many people have trouble affording the basics — housing, food, clothing, transportation and health care. NPR's Noah Adams travels throughout the country to profile the low-income workforce.
Listen to the NPR stories.
Watch Struggling to Survive.