claim: "60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. of the jobs we’ve gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage."
author: jeff merkley
evidence_1: aug 7, 2018 ... adjusted for inflation, today's average hourly wage has about as much ... have  been adding jobs for 101 straight months – 19.5 million since the great ... for  inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. ... much of  the recent activism in states and cities around raising minimum wages, ...
evidence_2: "60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. of the  jobs we've gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage." — politifact oregon on  ...
evidence_3: aug 5, 2018 ... between 2007 and 2013, wages declined for the bottom 70 percent of all workers . ... system we had in 2008, and whether we've gotten rid of it or not i don't know.  .... can't get jobs, or if they can get jobs, the jobs are not paying that well. ..... the  only fix is for women to return to what they were intended for.
evidence_4: "60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. of the  jobs we've gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage." — politifact oregon on  ...
evidence_5: in 1940, 60 percent of employed black women worked as domestic servants;  today the ... in 1964, the year the great civil rights act was passed, only 18  percent of ... majority held ill-paid, insecure, manual jobs—jobs that few whites  would take. ... new deal legislation, which set minimum wages and hours and  eliminated ...