Estimates show that only about 6percentt of household heads work for wages at or below the minimum, and about 10percentt of households with poverty-level incomes may include a year-round full-time worker.
How much will be taken from their benefits, which are already substantially below the minimum income standard threshold and the 60% of median income poverty threshold?
However, the foundation said, the government should not overlook the other 11 million people who lived far below the minimum income standard, at high risk of being in severe poverty with precarious finances.
The other 11 million live far below the minimum income standard and are, the JRF warns, "at high risk of falling into severe poverty".
Families were below the poverty line if their poverty income ratios were less than one.
Workers earn just $200 a month with the minimum wage, below the poverty line of $285.
The bedroom tax row came as the TUC published research claiming that just over half of all children will be living in below minimum income poverty standards within two years as a result of the government's welfare and tax reforms.
A single parent with one child working a full-time minimum-wage job will earn below the federal poverty threshold of $16,070, according to the University of California's Center for Poverty Research.
Zip codes with less than 5% of the population living below the poverty line were categorized as "Low poverty," those with 5-10% below the poverty line "Moderate poverty" and those with greater than 10% below the poverty line "High poverty".
Joseph C. Spencer, an owner of a Rochester restaurant called Hogans Hideaway, said he hoped the Legislature would raise the minimum wage because, under the current minimum wage, full-time workers earn $10,712 a year, which is below the federal poverty level.
