See Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith (2012), Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011 (PDF), U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Reports P60-243 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, September). 12  See National Employment Law Project (2012), “The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality,” Data Brief, report (New York: NELP, August), http://nelp.3cdn.net/8ee4a46a37c86939c0_qjm6bkhe0.pdf.
13  These patterns were also observed during the recessions of the early 1990s and early 2000s – the so-called jobless recoveries – but not prior to then.