Low Wage Work
US DOL Statement on Misclassification
PPG Policy Briefs
Poverty-Level Work in Western New York
Who Is Living in Poverty and Why?
UB Law Student Work
Policy Briefs
- Unemployment and Poverty in Western New York
- Education Levels and Low-Wage Work
- Poverty and the Single Mother
- Overtime Violations
- The Problem of Worker Misclassification
- Criminal Convictions and Employment Rights in New York State
- Drug Testing by Potential Employers
- Unionization of Low Wage Workers
- Local and Minority Hiring Practices
- Paid Sick Leave
- Strengthening Unemployment Insurance
- Transportation and Low Wage Work
- TANF and Higher Education
- Children First! Childcare Subsidies in Erie County
- How to Improve Erie County’s Work First Program
Fact Sheets on Low Wage Occupations
- Childcare Workers
- Dishwashers
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Farm Workers
- Food Service Workers (Restaurant)
- Food Service Workers (Public Schools)
- Home Health Aides
- Janitors
- Landscapers and Ground Keepers
- Receptionists
- Retail Sales
- Sanitation Workers
- School Bus Monitors
- Security Guards
- Teacher Aides
Reviews of Books Regarding Low Wage Work
- Poverty in America: A Handbook
- Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
- The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market
- Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
- Making It Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development
- What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality
- Half A Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market
- The Working Poor: Invisible in America
- Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America
- No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
- Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market
- Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work
- Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
- Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
- When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor