Oxfam America | Best and Worst States to Work in America 2021 7 o According to a simple ratio of the minimum wage to the basic cost of living, no state minimum wage reaches even half the cost of living for a family of four with one wage earner (the closest is Washington, where the minimum wage covers 41.1 percent of the basic cost of living).3 • Workers need more robust protections at the state an. [...] The need for paid leave at the state and federal level is especially important; the burdens of caring for sick family members overwhelmingly falls to women.5 The components we chose to pull out of the main Best States to Work Index and highlight for our capture of the Best States for Working Women Index are as follows: • Wages. [...] The discrepancies in the weights is largely due to the volume of data points in the worker protections dimension, and the wish to give each separate data point at least 10 percent of the overall score. [...] 10 Oxfam America | Best and Worst States to Work in America 2021 The most significant distinction between the regular BSWI measurement of tipped minimum wages in the wages dimension and the Best States for Working Women measurement of tipped minimum wages is that instead of comparing tipped minimum wage to the state minimum wage, in the Best States for Working Women index we compare tipped minimum. [...] These include the following: • Ratio of minimum wage to cost of living15 for a family of four • Ratio of tipped wage to minimum wage • Local control of minimum wage • Minimum wage extension to farmworkers • Ratio of UI benefits to cost of living for a family of four As in each of the dimensions, each state is given a score on a scale of 0 to 100; scores closer to 100 indicate states are more inves.
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