Low-Income Workers’ Perceptions of Wages, Food Acquisition, and Wellbeing

Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance went into effect in 2015 with a schedule to increase the minimum wage to $15/hour. Previous studies have demonstrated an association between increased economic resources and improvements in food security and health. Higher wages could theoretically be used to purchase food, but could also result in losses to public assistance. The aims of this analysis are to describe how low-wage workers perceive household resources in relation to food acquisition, and to explore how workers in low-wage jobs connect food and diet to perceptions of health and wellbeing.

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Project Type(s): Master's Thesis

Author(s): Lindsay Beck

Program(s): Master of Public Health, RDN Training

Year: 2019

Adviser(s):

• Jennifer Otten