1. The Working Poor: Who are they? Data courtesy of The Working Poor Families Project and the Dept. of Health and Human Services office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

2. What is poor?  According to The Working Poor Family Project, working poor, are those families making 200% of the federal poverty rate  2010 federal poverty rate for a family of 3 was $18,310  2014 federal poverty rate for a family of 3 is $19,790 (only a 7.4% increase)  2011 the US Census Bureau indicated 15% of the population were living in poverty or 46.2 million people

3. 39% of all working families are headed by females  In 2012 7.1 Million working families with children were headed by women  8.5 million children are living in female-headed low income working families  Children living in a female headed household had a poverty rate of 47.6%

4. How does the cycle continue?  Children living in poverty are more likely to have worse health  Children living in poverty have worse educational outcomes  Children in living in poverty have higher rates of dropping out of high school  Children tend to follow the same educational path as their caregivers  Adults who do not have a high school diploma are more likely to be low-income adults  Children tend to have the same employment trajectories as their parents

5. Myths about Low-Income Working Families:  Myth: Low income families don’t work  Fact: 72% of low-income families work  Myth: Low income families are overwhelmingly minority  Fact: 43% of low-income working families have white, non-Hispanic parents  Myth: Low-income families don’t work hard  Fact: The avg. work hours for low-income families is equivalent of 1 and ¼ full time jobs

6. How does Kansas stack up?  79% of all low-income families in Kansas work  31% of all working families make less than 200% of the federal poverty rate in Kansas  35% of all low-income families are headed by females in Kansas  Of those 43% have no post secondary education in Kansas  26% are working in jobs/occupations that pay below the federal poverty rate in Kansas0

7. Why is it happening and how do we fix it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npj2U1PdIhI#t=91

8. References:  http://aspe.hhs.gov http://aspe.hhs.gov  www.workingpoorfamilies.org www.workingpoorfamilies.org