No Way Out: How Prime-Age Workers Get Trapped in Minimum-Wage Jobs
One quarter of workers (24.2 percent) transitioned from lowwage jobs to nonemployment, while over a third (36.6 percent) stayed in lowwage jobs, and 39.2 percent transitioned into an ...
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How Good is the Economy at Creating Good Jobs?
In 2004, slightly more U.S. workers were in bad jobs (26.6 percent) than were in good jobs (25.2 percent). In the same year, the share of workers in bad jobs declined with both age and education
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Illegal Workers' Presence Growing
Twenty-four percent of all farming jobs are held by people who are not authorized to work in the United States, while such workers hold 17 percent of jobs in cleaning, 14 percent in construction and ...
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Job-Based Coverage Rare for 'Nonstandard' Workers
In 2001, most standard workers (74%) had health insurance through their jobs, but only 21 percent of nonstandard workers did. As a result, nonstandard workers were uninsured at twice the rate of ...
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ON THE FRINGE:
In 2001, most standard workers (74%) had health insurance through their jobs, but only 21 percent of nonstandard workers did (Figure 2). 10 As a result, nonstandard workers were uninsured at ...
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Facts & Stats
... pensions, fully 70 percent of union workers do. 86 percent of union workers’ jobs provide health insurance benefits, compared with only 59.5 percent of nonunion workers’ jobs. Only 2.5 percent of ...
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Tomorrow's Jobs
Employment of these workers is expected to grow 12 percent, adding 931,000 new jobs. Construction trades and related workers will account for more than three-fourths of these new jobs, 699,000, by ...
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Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2002
... and professional specialty jobs and in precision production, craft, and repair positions, to a high of about 10 percent for those in service jobs. Roughly two-thirds of all low-wage workers in 2002 ...
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HIDDEN COST OF WAL-MART JOBS
UC Berkeley study finds that use of safety net programs by Wal-Mart workers in California is higher than average for the retail industry.
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GCIU:Union jobs Better?
Eighty-eight percent of private-sector union workers have access to retirement benefits through their jobs, compared with only 56 percent of non-union workers
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TRADE: Outsourcing Jobs - Council on Foreign Relations
Only 36 percent of workers soon found jobs that matched or increased their wages. Twenty-five percent saw pay cuts of 30 percent or more. "These concerns are real and need to be addressed," says Diana ...
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Trade, Jobs, and Manufacturing: Why (Almost All) U.S. Workers Should ...
... nonfarm workers, about 85 percent ... than 2 percent of total nonfarm workers. Technological change and other non-trade factors account for most of the workers displaced from their jobs ...
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Public Citizen | FTAA and Workers' Rights and Jobs - FTAA and Workers ...
... from the destruction of millions of good jobs. Manufacturing workers who have lost their jobs to NAFTA typically have only been able to find new work in the service sector at wages 23-77 percent ...
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American Prospect Online - ViewPrint
... new destinations, where immigrants’ employment share of the construction workforce more than tripled since 1980, from 4.8 to 16.2 percent. Whether immigrants take jobs away from domestic workers ...
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Workers face paycheck pinch | csmonitor.com
After inflation, American workers earned 2.3 percent less than they did a year ago ... Those unionized jobs were "a boost to wages for less-educated workers generally, because to some extent other ...
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