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Almost all the jobs created since 2005 are temporary
- ThomPete 10y agoHere is how the US Department of Labor define jobs: "People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time, year-round employment. Individuals also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week, whether they were paid or not, because they were:" http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm Hopefully we will soon be able to discuss the reality of our situation and start looking at what to do about it instead of keep insisting that jobs are just jobs and that outsourcing and automation have no effect.
- makecheck 10y agoAlso, “having a job” does not mean “can live”. You might still need a 2nd job, and you might depend on other family members having jobs too. We need to stop defining employment as the measurement of goodness and start finding ways to define decent quality of life. How many people have a decent quality of life regardless of their “jobs”?