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Title: Poverty among employed higher than unemployed: Report
Source:The Times of India
Date:14 January 2014
Poverty among the employed is higher than among the unemployed. If that seems counterintuitive, the fact that 90% of the poor are employed might make it seem less puzzling. The poor and the uneducated cannot afford to not work, while the unemployment rates keep climbing as the level of education rises. Thus, the problems for the underemployed and the working poor are more acute than open unemployment, with over half the workers falling below the poverty line. This was revealed in the India Labour and Employment Report 2014 which looked at employment data of the National Sample Survey Organisation up to 2011-12.
