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Showing Original Post only (View all)Working-class mothers in the post-recession economy: Some sobering stats [View all]
The study focused on mothers ages 18 to 54 with household income between $30,000 and $49,000 an amount that generally does not qualify for government assistance. Research included a survey, focus groups, in-home interviews, shop-alongs and analysis of secondary research.
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Regardless of profession, as a group the demographic has been hit hard in recent years, C-K said, experiencing significant changes in employment during the last five years:
35% lost their job
35% had their pay cut
33% began working multiple jobs
19% went from full-time to part-time work
"Over half of the women we spoke to felt worse off financially than before the recession," C-K said in a statement. "These consumers consider themselves forever changed.
"Of those we spoke with, 84% said they wouldnt go back to their old spending habits, even if the economy were to rebound or their circumstances were to change," according to the study.
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Working-class mothers in the post-recession economy: Some sobering stats [View all]
YoungDemCA
May 2013
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kr. a *real* feminist issue, but so little-discussed. equal pay for upper management!
HiPointDem
May 2013
#1
What's fucked up is you attacking OTHER WOMEN when you had NO FUCKING CALL TO DO SO.
redqueen
May 2013
#13
those FEMEN 'feminists' aren't interested in lower-class women -- unless they work in the sex
HiPointDem
May 2013
#20
Apparently we can't discuss single moms without SOME women attacking feminists they don't like
redqueen
May 2013
#29
I don't think femen advances anything i care about, feminist or otherwise. On the contrary, I
HiPointDem
May 2013
#32
It's all about the plutocracy/plutonomy, as with all of the problems they've made for us.
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
#16
and they, as well as black males, continue to be hit harder in the 'recovery,' as well as by the
HiPointDem
May 2013
#23
Which goes back to what I wrote. If you focus your attention where you are directed to,
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
#24
"should actually look at the economics that create this "service sector" in the economy."
HiPointDem
May 2013
#31