[NJFAC] Letter to NY Times in response to oped on those stuck in part-time jobs

Congratulations to Adelle Waldman and Matt Bruenig for calling attention to the plight of millions of Americans who are stuck in part-time jobs. In February, 4.4 million Americans were working part-time because they couldn't find full-time work. Had the Department of Labor counted these involuntary part-timers as unemployed, the number officially  unemployed would have jumped from 7.6 million to 12.0 million people, a 58% increase.  And how about the number of people who have full-time,  year-round work but earn less than the four-person poverty standard--16.3 million men and women in 2023, when the poverty standard was $31,200 for a family of four (latest  figures available)?  Why stop at a guarantee of full-time work for involuntary part-timers when there are millions unemployed or earning poverty wages for full-time work? How about a federal guarantee of the right to living-wage work for all who want to work?

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

Chair, National Jobs for All Network 

Prof. Emerita of Social Work and Social Policy, Adelphi University

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[NJFAC] NAFTA effects on mortality

Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA's Mortality Impacts and Implications Amy Finkelstein, Matthew J. Notowidigdo & Steven X. Shi

Working Paper 34855 DOI 10.3386/w34855 Issue Date February 2026

We estimate the mortality impact of local labor market exposure to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as to other local area shocks, and provide a parsimonious empirical explanation for differently-signed mortality estimates across different sources of local labor market contractions. Leveraging spatial variation in exposure to Mexican important competition from NAFTA, we find that more exposed areas experienced larger increases in mortality. In the 15 years post-NAFTA, an area with average NAFTA exposure experienced an increase in annual, age-adjusted mortality of 0.68 percent (standard error = 0.19), an increase that more than erases prior estimates of the welfare gains from NAFTA's nationwide economic benefits. Mortality increases appear across all broad age by sex groups, but are particularly pronounced among working-age men, a demographic that also experienced disproportionate NAFTA-induced declines in (primarily manufacturing) employment. Additional evidence from other local labor market shocks reveals a systematic pattern: declines in local area manufacturing employment increase mortality, while declines in local area non-manufacturing employment decrease mortality. These findings suggest that the sign and magnitude of any mortality impacts of future economic shocks likely depends critically on the extent to which employment declines are concentrated in the manufacturing sector.

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June Zaccone
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[NJFAC] More than 2.1 billion of world’s 3.6 billion workers are in the informal economy, according to ILO

The International Labour Organisation's Employment and Social Trends 2026 report paints a stark picture of the conditions facing most of the world's workers.

More than 2.1 billion of the world's 3.6 billion workers—around 60 percent—labour in the informal economy. They work on a casual basis for low pay, often in hazardous conditions and without legal rights, job security or social protection, including sick pay, medical or disability insurance, unemployment benefits or pensions.

Informal or casual work is the dominant form of employment in much of the global South. In sub-Saharan Africa, informal employment reaches around 90 percent; in South and South-East Asia, it is similarly pervasive, accompanied by widespread poverty and severe decent-work deficits.

Informalisation is growing in the advanced economies, where migrant labour is widely used in agriculture, care work, hospitality and construction, and where "off-the-books" subcontracting has expanded in logistics and delivery through the platform or gig economy.....

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/04/hlnv-m04.html

Executive summary: https://researchrepository.ilo.org/view/delivery/41ILO_INST/13147301360002676?bypassKey=492dd5a5-3f7a-45de-9fa7-2d91f07c5f19

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