Report: Federal purchasing power could lift millions out of poverty

[LuckyTheDog]

Eight million workers rely on low-wage jobs supported by the federal government’s $1.3 trillion in annual spending on goods and services, a report by the national public policy organization Demos finds.

Underwriting Good Jobs: How to Place Over 20 Million Americans on a Pathway to the Middle Class Using Federal Purchasing Power builds on President Obama’s executive order that raised the minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of federally contracted workers. But, it calls for a more robust framework that would incentivize federally-funded employers to raise labor standards more broadly, benefiting 8 million low-wage workers and their families. 70 percent of these workers, or 5.6 million, are women, and nearly 45 percent are people of color.

MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/federal-purchasing-power-could-lift-millions-out-of-poverty/

[WillyT]

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[Uncle Joe]

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Thanks for the thread, LuckyTheDog.