Dave Graham-Squire

Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry

October 15, 2013 • Brief • By Sylvia A. Allegretto, Marc Doussard, Dave Graham-Squire, Ken Jacobs, Dan Thompson and Jeremy Thompson

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of enrollments in America’s major public benefits programs are from working families. But many of them work in jobs that pay wages so low that their…

Where Have All the Wages Gone?

August 1, 2006 • Brief • By Arindrajit Dube and Dave Graham-Squire

This study uses household survey data and other sources through June of 2006 to evaluate changes in employment, wages and composition of jobs in the United States and in California.