Return the share of workers earning equal to or less than the poverty-level wage, or the hourly wage that a full-time, year-round worker must earn to sustain a family of four with two children at the official poverty threshold.
get_poverty_level_wages(by = NULL)
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tbl_df
with data filtered by the selected criteria.
data frame
Population sample: Wage and salary workers age 18–64. Data source: CPS ORG | Census Bureau (poverty threshold)
Economic Policy Institute Data Library
if (not_dos()) get_poverty_level_wages() if (not_dos()) get_poverty_level_wages("r") if (not_dos()) get_poverty_level_wages("gr")