New Census data show the poverty rate held steady in 2014.
Elise Gould
Elise Gould is senior economist and director of health policy research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Her research areas include wages, poverty, inequality, economic mobility, and health care. She is a co-author of The State of Working America, 12th Edition.
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There Are Nearly Six Unemployed Construction Workers for Every Construction Job Opening
If today’s labor market woes were the result of skills shortages, this would not be the case.

