Unpaid Labor Was Finally Being Recognized. Trump Could Erase That.

Every day, more than half of American adults spend at least three hours working without pay, contributing 1.3 billion hours daily of unpaid work to our economy. Multiply those hours by the woefully low federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, and that comes to at least $9.4 billion dollars worth of work per day – equivalent to 13% of the country’s entire gross domestic product.

That colossal sum, calculated by the Care Board, a research project at the University of Kansas, quantifies the economic value of the time that we spend caring for others – feeding or reading to a child, helping a disabled loved one get dressed or managing an aging parent’s complex medications and daily needs.

Read the full article in U.S. News and World Report