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Job Creation: Quantity v. Quality?
The U.S. Labor Department released its August jobs report on Friday. The news for American workers was worse than expected. The U.S. added zero jobs in August, making this one of the worst job reports since the Labor Department began keeping records in 1939.
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The report also showed that the number of involuntary part-time workers, people who’ve had their hours cut or who’ve been unable to find full-time positions, rose from 8.4 to 8.8 million people. NPR takes a look at the real-life impact of this trend in its yearlong series “The Road Back to Work.” All six of the St. Louis residents profiled in the series have found new jobs since being laid-off, but four of them are working in temporary or part-time positions.