The Full Time Scandal in Part Time America
The Full Time Scandal in Part Time America
The article The full time scandal in part America by Mortimer Zuckerman is an current analysis of the employment rates in America. The article describes a point of scrutiny towards the objective of employment or the employment of people in America. In this article there are statistical data, recollections of events which support the main ideas of the article, and statements from people deemed important to the main idea of the article. The main idea of the article is that the employment rate in America with an emphasis on the ratio of full time employment to part time employment, is unequally biased to part-time work. The conclusion of the main idea is that most of the new employment statistics are caused by the employment of workers mostly at half-time employment hours and pay. As a description of the magnitude of the main idea/issue the article states that only 47.7% of adults in the U.S. are working full time and that there are 48 million people in
the U.S. in low-wage jobs. The writer of the article believes or has concluded that employers cut workers hours to avoid the Affordable Care Acts mandate to provide health insurance to anyone working 30 hours a week or more. The statistical data of 24 million working age Americans remain jobless, working part-time involuntarily or having left the workforce, is also presented along with the statistical data that 2.4 million Americans have become discouraged and dropped out of the workforce. Another very important factor presented to incorporate into the main idea of the article was that part-time jobs are no longer the domain of the young and many are taken by adults in their prime working years which are 25 to 54 years of age and many are single men and women without high school diplomas. The main issue at hand to the writer is a vision based opinion which concludes that the analysis