Our new series looks at how jobs are failing to support their workers in terms of salary, healthcare, childcare, housing, and retirement. Full-time employment in this country rests, at least theoretically, on an unspoken but well-understood deal. You work for 40 or more hours a week to help a company make more money. In exchange, the company will pay you enough so that you can afford a roof over your head (perhaps even on land that you own), will help subsidize the cost of caring for your health...
Our new series looks at how jobs are failing to support their workers in terms of salary, healthcare, childcare, housing, and retirement. Full-time employment in this country rests, at least theoretically, on an unspoken but well-understood deal. You work for 40 or more hours a week to help a company make more money. In exchange, the company will pay you enough so that you can afford a roof over your head (perhaps even on land that you own), will help subsidize the cost of caring for your health...
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