…just the other day, came a study from the National Employment Law Project. It states that in our partial recovery from worst depths of the 2008-2009 recession, the majority of the jobs (58 percent) created since then are low-wage ones, paying less than $14 an hour.
One finding of the study, its authors say, is to point out that there is not just a jobs deficit, but a “good jobs deficit.” Such data ought to alter how the government, the private sector and our educational institutions match workers to sustainable jobs in the future.