Better Workers for Better Jobs: Improving Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market

This article is from the Hamilton Project and provides information on how low-wage workers can advance in the labor market. Wage inequality is constantly growing in the U.S. and low-wage workers need additional supports to help close the gap in earnings. Many State and local initiatives can offer training, financial supports, and job placement assistance to low-income workers; however, these programs are often too small to have a substantial effect on low-wage workers as a whole.