In 2005, nearly one-quarter (22.1 percent) of U.S. workers were in "bad jobs": jobs that paid less than the median wage in 1979 (in inflation-adjusted dollars), with no employer-based health insurance or retirement plan. The share of bad jobs in the U.S. economy has not changed in over a quarter century.
Categories:
Employment,Unemployment,Wages,Salary
Reporting Pub:
BridgingTtheGaps.org
Reporting Date:
10/10/2007
Article
Title:
BRIDGING THE GAPS: A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States
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