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But the "in the labor force" category includes people who are forced to work part time so they don't collect benefits, get bumped from job to job, have unreliab
by oconnore 11y ago
But the "in the labor force" category includes people who are forced to work part time so they don't collect benefits, get bumped from job to job, have unreliable hours, make less than the cost of living, etc.
The graph should be split:
- Has a reliable full time job with benefits
- Has a minimum wage job, or is a part time employee/contractor making less than $20-30k a year.
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- _delirium 11y agoIt's not shown here, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics does further break down workers into full-time, voluntarily part-time, and involuntarily part-time [1]. Numbers for part-time workers below are for September 2015. Part-time for economic reasons (6 million) Slack work or business conditions (3.6 million) Could only find part-time work (2.1 million) Other (0.3 million) Part-time for noneconomic reasons (20 million) [1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm
- oconnore 11y agoThanks, so depending on how you count unincorporated, self employed workers, you get between 3.5% [1] and 9% [2] of the labor force underemployed (not looking at salary). I suspect there are more Uber drivers than successful independent consultants, but we don't have data about that. That's better than I expected. [1]: (6036) / (2357 + 146464 + 19656) [2]: (6036 + 8357 + 820) / (2357 + 146464 + 19656)