Chart: Poverty rates, child care workers versus other workers, 2014

Table 4

Poverty rates, child care workers versus other workers, 2014

	All child care	All others	Difference	Child care poverty penalty^a
Poverty rate	14.7%	6.7%	7.9 ppt.	5.9 ppt.***
200% poverty rate	36.7%	21.1%	15.6 ppt.	10.8 ppt.***

a. Percentage-point difference between poverty/"twice poverty" rates of child care workers and those of demographically similar workers in other occupations

*** indicates significance at the .01 level; ** indicates significance at the .05 level; * indicates significance at the 0.1 level.

Note: Poverty rates refer to the share of workers whose family income places them below the indicated poverty line. OLS regressions control for gender, nativity, citizenship, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, age, marital status, urbanicity, region of the country, and year. Complete regression results available from the author upon request. To ensure sufficient sample sizes, this table draws from pooled 2012–2014 data.

Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement data

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