On Labor Day, U.S. workers insecure
When Labor Day dawns tomorrow, much of working America will wake up insecure.
Worried about holding a job – or finding one. Burdened with debt or still paying the price for the last borrowing binge. Forced to postpone retirement – or to quit prematurely. Coping with paychecks that seem to shrink as health care, gas and food costs rise.
Embedded in those woes is something deeper — fear that the damage done by the Great Recession will last for years to come.
“For the first time ever, those who stayed employed are suffering as the result of a recession,” said labor economist Jeffrey Wenger of the University of Georgia.
In Sunday's newspaper, the AJC looks at how U.S. workers are faring. It's a story you'll only get by picking up a copy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution or logging on to the paper's iPad app. Subscribe today.
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