A Profile of the Working Poor: 2007

This report is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides an overview of the working poor in 2007. Specifically, Black and Hispanic workers continued to be more than twice as likely as their White counterparts to be poor. Additionally, in 2007, only 1.3 percent of college graduates who were in the labor force for at least 27 weeks were among the working poor, compared with 16.5 percent of those with less than a high school diploma. Data also showed that women who maintain families were more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be among the working poor.