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| Document Summary | - Report Published - |
Senate Document No. 6
PUBLICATION YEAR 1990 | |
| Document Title |
| The Working Poor in Virginia |
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| Author |
| Secretary of Economic Development |
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| Enabling Authority |
| SJR 194 (1989) |
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| Executive Summary |
Authority
This report was conducted in response to Senate Joint Resolution 194 (copy
attached in Appendix 1) which requested the Secretary of Economic Development
to "...study the use of contingent workers and its effect on equal employment
and wages and benefits." The responsibility for carrying out the study was
subsequently assigned to the Virginia Employment Commission by the Secretary
of Economic Development.
Intent
Virginia Employment Commission officials and staff met with the sponsor of
Senate Joint Resolution 194 in an attempt to specify completely the intent
and objective of the Resolution. As a result of this meeting, it was
determined that the intent of the sponsor of the Resolution, Senator Yvonne
Miller of Norfolk, was to develop an information base and a profile of the
working poor in Virginia. For the purposes of the report and at the
suggestion of Senator Miller, the working poor are defined as those persons
whose primary sources of income are wages from working at one or more
part-time jobs and who do not receive employee benefits or receive only
partial employee benefits, with special reference to health insurance
benefits.
Objective
Due to data limitations, the report information base and profile are provided
only on a statewide basis and deal with only the availability, not the
adequacy, of health care benefits for the working poor. The objective of the
report is to develop an information base and a general profile of the
magnitude of the population of the working poor and the extent to which they
receive employee benefits, and especially, health care coverage.
Methodology and Data Sources
This report provides an analysis and profile of the working poor in Virginia
based on two primary data sources: 1) data on employment status of workers
available from the most recent Current Population Survey conducted by the
Bureau of the Census; and, 2) data and assumptions regarding employee
benefits and health insurance coverage of part-time workers from recent
national studies. |
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