Warren out with a plan today to help part-time workers -- would require weeks-ahead scheduling, >11 hours between shifts (for workers at firms above 15 workers).
Which gets at a needle Democrats are trying to thread this year: 1/
Which gets at a needle Democrats are trying to thread this year: 1/
Yes, the job market as a whole is relatively healthy. Low unemployment, albeit with so-so wage growth....worker *shortages* in some places (maybe not "healthy" but good for workers). BUT.
Job *quality* is a thing dem candidates are getting at with their policies. 2/
Job *quality* is a thing dem candidates are getting at with their policies. 2/
For example: check out this (awesome) new indicator, the Job Quality Index. Jobs are substantially lower-quality than they were before Great Recession: qz.com/1752676/the-jo…
Similarly, Gallup finds that 60% of workers are in "mediocre" or "bad" jobs. gallup.com/education/2675…
You can quibble with the methodologies here but there does seem to be a palpable sense that yeah there's work but that workers are being taken advantage of.
You can quibble with the methodologies here but there does seem to be a palpable sense that yeah there's work but that workers are being taken advantage of.
Now, Trump will continue trumpeting the unemployment figure, which isn't nothing. (Is it his doing? Not really. But still, he'll do it, as all presidents do.)
And that will signify to a lot of folks that he's doing great. He already gets good marks (relatively) on the economy 5/
And that will signify to a lot of folks that he's doing great. He already gets good marks (relatively) on the economy 5/
But it seems like that would signify great things mostly to people already in good jobs. If you're not in a good job....well.....you're not crazy for thinking the job market could be better. 6/
(Now once again: THE PRESIDENT --ANY PRESIDENT -- DOES NOT GENERALLY HAVE THAT BIG OF AN EFFECT ON THE JOB MARKET.) 7/
