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Source:
Pew Research Center
Additional Information:
Low-income workers are those in the bottom tenth of earnings, with hourly wages of $10.80 or less. In contrast, 92 percent of high-income workers have access to paid sick leave. They have earnings in the top quarter of the workforce, at more than $32.31 an hour.
Reference:
For more information, read the 2020 Pew Research Center analysis,
"As Coronavirus Spreads, Which U.S. Workers Have Paid Sick Leave – and Which Don’t?"
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