Examples of 'working poor' in a sentence

Meaning of "working poor"

working poor: a term used to describe individuals who are employed but still living in poverty due to low wages or unstable job opportunities. This phrase is commonly used in discussions about social welfare and income inequality
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  • Working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line.

How to use "working poor" in a sentence

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The working poor have largely been invisible.
Savings conditions and the working poor.
So the working poor voted with their feet.
Employed but in low income working poor.
The working poor were accorded a higher social status.
This policy expanded the working poor.
But the working poor have limited opportunities.
The hardest hit were the working poor.
A class of working poor has emerged.
It was specifically built for the working poor.
The working poor are overwhelmingly disadvantaged by this system.
What we would call the working poor.
The working poor got nothing.
Urban poverty and the working poor.
These working poor are our neighbors.

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But not for the working poor.
The working poor are another major group requiring attention.
They are not protectors of the working poor.
Access by the working poor to decent work will be facilitated.
And reducing the share of working poor.
The working poor so to speak.
Retail is the home of the working poor.
Many of the working poor are located in the informal sector.
Registered unemployment and the working poor.
The new working poor.
Many employed people are the working poor.
The working poor never saw any benefits of globalism.
Welcome to the world of the working poor.
Working poor struggling to survive.
It is too expensive for the working poor.
Working poor is a common theme.
They are often called the working poor.
Of hard working poor people.
There are many hard working poor.
The share of working poor is rising and high by international comparison.
Focus on the rural working poor.
The working poor described their daily lives in many ways.
Little political power among the working poor.
And the ranks of the working poor continued to swell.
This swells the ranks of the working poor.
The phenomenon of the working poor makes that strikingly evident.
Dimensions and causes of working poor.
Unemployment and the working poor are of concern to public policy making.
I have got ideas about the working poor.
How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them.
The diffusion of information among the working poor.
Most are working poor.
They were what are now called the working poor.
We will not leave the working poor to their tragic fate.
Mental health benefits for the working poor.

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