- There’s an App for Wrecking Nannies’ Lives (The New York Times)
- The number of Americans working for themselves could triple by 2020 (Quartz)
- Rise Of The Contract Workers: Work Is Different Now (NPR)
- When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S. (Bloomberg)
Part Time Employment
- When A Full-Time Job Isn't Enough To Make It (National Public Radio)
Public Sector Employment
- Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class (The New York Times)
Labor Unions
- How Unions Help Race And Gender Wage Gaps (Refinery 29)
- Unions are Cool (Vice)
- Better education doesn't correlate strongly to economic mobility (but union membership does) (Boing Boing)
Underground Economy
- After the Check is Gone - Underground Economy (The Washington Post)
Workforce Training
- Retooling the Workforce (Christian Science Monitor)
Unemployment Trends, Labor Participation & Demographics
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Why Have So Many Americans Stopped Working? (Investor’s Business Daily)
- Why are fewer teenagers taking summer jobs? (World Economic Forum)
- Prime-Aged Americans Are Working Less. But It’s Good News for Economy (Observer)
- Black unemployment is at a record low. But there's a lot more to the story. (CNN)
Recessions & Inflation