The Underemployment Crisis

By Annie Lowrey

Excerpt:

A new analysis from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), an anti-poverty research and advocacy group, suggests that underemployment was far more common than government statistics indicated even before the pandemic recession hit. A kitchen-table economic crisis was hiding in plain sight. Now the pandemic threatens to make the situation far worse.

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Source URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/underemployment-crisis/614989/