Poverty and poverty reduction among non-elderly, nondisabled, childless adults in affluent countries: The United States in

could lower the incidence of low-paid work, and thus reduce poverty among the employed, by increasing the minimum wage at the federal and/or state and local levels, and by expanding the share of the workforce covered by collective agreements. [...] We adjust for household size by dividing unadjusted income cause the federal, state, or local government is paying part by the square root of the number of persons in the house- of the cost, as simulated by the U. [...] and in our six comparator country cases While section III analyzed trends in poverty among visualized in figure 3.15 The values in figure 3 report the childless adults in the U. [...] separated in the data for Ireland or the Netherlands.) The middle panel of table 2 documents that taxes and transfers do less in the U. [...] The data in figures 4 and 5, and in appendices 6 and 7, pertain its relation to the poverty threshold, the U.