By Lecia Imbery
Public assistance programs are indeed vital to working families. In fact, nearly three-quarters of people receiving public assistance are members of working families, according to a new report from the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education. For many workers, the low pay, lack of benefits and fewer hours they’re given mean that the paychecks they earn just aren’t enough to keep up with everyday living expenses. Sadly, that’s no surprise given the fact that the report found that after adjusting for inflation, wages across the country either remained flat or fell for the entire bottom 70 percent of workers in the US from 2003 to 2013.
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