Our Crisis of Bad Jobs

Our Crisis of Bad Jobs

Jeff Madrick

The reason that the economic recovery is coinciding with middle class decline is increasingly clear. America is creating jobs, but they are bad jobs: retailing, food preparation, and table waiting, for example—in other words, jobs that don’t pay much.http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/oct/02/our-crisis-bad-jobs/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=October+2+2012&utm_content=October+2+2012+Version+A+CID_996a62e491e192bdb8314b9ce40335c0&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Our%20Crisis%20of%20Bad%20Jobs