that most of the working poor are barely on the clock full-time

Riiiight. That's why my student's dad worked 60+ hours a week at a pizza parlor until he was fired because supposedly "customers complained about him" when no such thing occurred, there had just been a change of management and the new management didn't like how he had contracted tuberculosis and had been out one week.

The conditions that inspired "The Jungle" still exist for immigrants.

(I'm yelling at her, not you. ;))