The ‘Invisible’ Employment Statistic We Should Be Thinking About This Labor Day
In The News Piece in Vice
Sept. 17, 2015
“They’re not part-time workers as much as they’re part-time unemployed,” Mary Alice McCarthy, a New America Senior Policy Analyst, recently said at a symposium on the future of work, “so when we think about what sorts of policies are appropriate for that 6.5 million, they look a lot more like the policies we direct to unemployed people. This is a population really in serious distress, but the problem is… they’re kind of invisible.”