epidata (version 0.4.0)

get_poverty_level_wages: Poverty-level wages

Description

Return the share of workers earning equal to or less than the poverty-level wage, or the hourly wage that a full-time, year-round worker must earn to sustain a family of four with two children at the official poverty threshold.

Usage

get_poverty_level_wages(by = NULL)

Arguments

by

NULL or character string with any combination of g (Gender) or r (Race), i.e. if you want to retrieve unemployment data by gender and race, you would set this parameter to "gr".

Value

tbl_df with data filtered by the selected criteria.

data frame

Details

Population sample: Wage and salary workers age 18<U+2013>64. Data source: CPS ORG | Census Bureau (poverty threshold)

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

# NOT RUN {
if (not_dos()) get_poverty_level_wages()

if (not_dos()) get_poverty_level_wages("r")

if (not_dos()) get_poverty_level_wages("gr")
# }