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Are low wage earners adequately covered by workers’ compensation?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

highlighted that using gross pay as the basis for applying the compensation rate results in inequities—uneven results for workers due to tax factors and number of dependents. Interestingly, many of the states without state income taxes are at the lower end of this array. A 2016 survey [see Terrance J. Burton, Jr.,