{"id":3981,"date":"2011-04-15T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2011-04-15T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:17:44","slug":"many-ohio-workers-taking-jobs-for-much-lower-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/15\/many-ohio-workers-taking-jobs-for-much-lower-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Ohio workers taking jobs for much lower pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, 172,000 hourly workers in Ohio had  earnings at or below the federal minimum wage, representing a 21 percent  increase from 2009 and a 118 percent jump from 2007 when the recession  began, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re  creating jobs, but most of the jobs we\u2019re seeing created now are at the  very high end or the very low end,\u201d said Robert Premus, professor of  economics at Wright State University. \u201cWe\u2019re not creating those jobs in  the middle that we once referred to as \u201cgood jobs,\u201d paying 15, 18 or 19  dollars an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Many Ohio workers taking jobs for much lower pay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/dayton-news\/many-ohio-workers-taking-jobs-for-much-lower-pay-1136557.html\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) In 2010, 172,000 hourly workers in Ohio had earnings at or below the federal minimum wage, representing a 21 percent increase from 2009 and a 118 percent jump from 2007 when the recession began, according to the U.S. Bureau &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/15\/many-ohio-workers-taking-jobs-for-much-lower-pay\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}