Via: New York Times:
Politicians across the political spectrum herald “job creation,”
but frightfully few of them talk about what kinds of jobs are being
created. Yet this clearly matters: According to the Census Bureau,
one-third of adults who live in poverty are working but do not earn
enough to support themselves and their families.
A quarter of jobs in America pay below the federal poverty line for a
family of four ($23,050). Not only are many jobs low-wage, they are
also temporary and insecure. Over the last three years, the temp
industry added more jobs in the United States than any other, according
to the American Staffing Association, the trade group representing temp
recruitment agencies, outsourcing specialists and the like.
Low-wage, temporary jobs have become so widespread that they
threaten to become the norm. But for some reason this isn’t causing a
scandal. At least in the business press, we are more likely to hear
plaudits for “lean and mean” companies than angst about the changing
nature of work for ordinary Americans.
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