{"id":5145,"date":"2010-05-06T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2010-05-06T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:07:36","slug":"more-jobs-less-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5145\/more-jobs-less-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"More Jobs, Less Pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like there <em>will<\/em> be more jobs next year as the American economy struggles free of the recession; it\u2019s just that half of them won\u2019t be full-time.\u00a0 Or come with a retirement plan.\u00a0 Or offer health coverage.\u00a0 Or even sick days.\u00a0 But hey; it\u2019s work!<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36826679\/ns\/business-careers\/\/ \" target=\"_blank\">sobering report<\/a>, Eve Tahmincioglu \u2013 herself an independent contractor \u2013 writes about the emergence of the \u201ccontingent workforce,\u201d an umbrella term for freelancers, temps, and pay-for-project workers.\u00a0 According to a study released by Littler Mendelson, a leading employment law firm, up to 50% of the new jobs in the next economy will be contract work.\u00a0 The benefit to the company is payroll flexibility.\u00a0 The benefit to the worker is a job, or more likely, multiple jobs for less pay than a full-time equivalent position.<\/p>\n<p>A bit surprising is the projection that managers and professionals like engineers, scientists, and attorneys are joining the ranks of the temporarily employed.\u00a0 So, what does all this mean for public policy?\u00a0 Plenty.\u00a0 With millions of workers on the hook for their own health care, retirement, and payroll taxes don\u2019t be surprised if many of them default into \u201cpublic options\u201d like ObamaCare; especially if the government offers it at a lower price than the private sector.\u00a0 Just what The One wants: more jobs, more dependency on government!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like there will be more jobs next year as the American economy struggles free of the recession; it\u2019s just that half of them won\u2019t be full-time.\u00a0 Or come with a retirement plan.\u00a0 Or offer health coverage.\u00a0 Or even sick days.\u00a0 But hey; it\u2019s work! In a sobering report, Eve Tahmincioglu \u2013 herself an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,19,27,35,82],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-obamacare","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}