Low-wage jobs — persistent poverty — has long been associated with poor health outcomes such as depression, obesity, and hypertension.
They then outlined the relationship with memory decline over the next 12 years from 2004-2016.
The researchers found that, compared with wealthier workers who never earned low wages, sustained low-income earners experienced significantly faster memory decline in older age — an average of one year more of cognitive aging per a 10-year period.In the U.S., the federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 per hour since 2009 — not nearly keeping up with inflation, the report said.
“Future work should rigorously examine the number of dementia cases and excess years of cognitive aging that could be prevented under different hypothetical scenarios that would increase the minimum hourly wage.” Low-wage or “low skill” employees often face higher higher health risks such as toxic exposures and work-related stress.workers with periodic bouts of low wages and 79 workers with ‘sustained’ low wages throughout their midlife employment history.
Compared with individuals who ‘never’ earned low wages, those with ‘intermittent’ or ‘sustained’ low-wage exposure were more likely to be female, black, born in the
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