4 Truly Disturbing Facts About Low-Wage Retail Workers

This Black Friday the lives of low-wage retail workers were thrust into the spot light as employees of a variety of stores weent to work on Thanksgiving Day and strikers descended on Walmart stores in 100 cities .

In a recent study by non-partisan public policy center, Dmos , Catherine Ruetschlin explores the demographics of low-wage retail workers.

Some important and troubling statistics:

• 63 percent of female retail workers qualify as low-wage.

The study found that if retailers raised low-wage workers' pay to just $25,000 it would create more than 100,000 jobs.