What does it mean when you have a good job, work full time, and still can’t afford to make ends meet? In this episode of Policy for the People, we meet Lora Edwards, a single mother of four who works full time as a state data analyst. Despite having a career and a steady paycheck,
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Many workers have had enough with poor quality jobs. A record number of workers quit their jobs this past August, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Department of Labor. Some 4.3 million Americans said goodbye to their employer, eclipsing the previous record of 4 million set in April of this year. Meanwhile, all across
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On the eve of the pandemic, at a time when Oregon enjoyed one of the strongest job markets on record, more than half of all jobs in the state paid too little to adequately support a family. Many of those jobs also failed to offer enough hours of work or benefits like health insurance, according
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Executive summary On the eve of the pandemic, a time when the nation was experiencing the longest economic boom on record, poor quality jobs predominated in Oregon. In 2019, more than half of all jobs paid too little to adequately support a family. Many of these jobs not only paid poorly, they offered insufficient hours
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