More families rely on one low-paying job to survive

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The Cincinnati Enquirer
More families rely on one low-paying job to survive
Dan Horn, [e-mail] 11:15 p.m. EDT April 3, 2014

Dina Smith sits down at the kitchen table with a small stack of bills every two weeks and asks herself the same question.

"What needs to be taken care of right this second?"

Her twice-monthly paycheck of about $350 means her options are usually limited to paying utilities and restocking a near-empty refrigerator. She'll put off repairs to her broken-down 2001 Saturn – again – and try to find a few dollars for bus fare instead.

This is life today in one of the tens of thousands of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky households that survive on the paycheck of a low-wage breadwinner.... MORE

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