{"id":6265,"date":"2021-10-05T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:53:51","slug":"more-americans-are-taking-jobs-without-employer-benefits-like-health-care-or-paid-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6265","title":{"rendered":"More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;More people are turning to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gigeconomydata.org\/basics\/what-gig-worker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gig work<\/a>&nbsp;than ever before, but since these jobs usually don\u2019t come with employer benefits, their proliferation could worsen inequality for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of people employed in nontraditional ways in the US rose to a record 51 million this year, an unprecedented 34 percent jump compared to 2020, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbopartners.com\/state-of-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new data from MBO Partners<\/a>, a company that provides business solutions to the independent workforce and has conducted a long-running study of the group. These types of workers \u2014 which include contract workers, people who are self-employed, temporary and on-call workers, and those who get short-term jobs through online apps or marketplaces \u2014 are now equivalent to a third of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US employment<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22651953\/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22651953\/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;More people are turning to gig work than ever before, but since these jobs usually don\u2019t come with employer benefits, their proliferation could worsen inequality for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people employed in nontraditional ways in the US rose to a record 51 million this year, an unprecedented 34 percent jump compared to 2020, according to new data from MBO Partners, a company that provides business solutions to the independent workforce and has conducted a long-running study of the group. These types of workers \u2014 which include contract workers, people who are self-employed, temporary and on-call workers, and those who get short-term jobs through online apps or marketplaces \u2014 are now equivalent to a third of US employment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[634,635],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-gig-economy","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6266,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}