Loss of job deals double blow to modest earners

 

CHAMPAIGN – Modest-earning workers losing their jobs are especially vulnerable to the double devastation of losing not only their income but their health insurance, a study released Friday found.

Nationally, more than half of unemployed workers living on less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or $44,100 for a family of four, are now without health insurance, according to the study by Families USA, a national nonprofit health care consumers organization.

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