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Title: A staggering number of people with factory jobs still need government help Author: Jim Tankersley http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jim-tankersley Source: Washington Post

*Date:* May 10, 2016 Summary: In a new report http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/producing-poverty-the-public-cost-of-low-wage-production-jobs-in-manufacturing/ out Tuesday, Ken Jacobs, Zohar Perla, Ian Perry and Dave Graham-Squire find that one-third of the families of "frontline manufacturing production workers" are enrolled in a government safety-net program. The families' benefits cost state and local governments about $10 billion a year on average from 2009 to 2013, the analysis found.

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