Monday, September 7: Labor Day report on job insecurity, states prepare for possible federal election meddling, Milwaukee man framed for assassination threat still faces deportation, union membership grows
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“My research shows that employers treat more than 1 in 3 U.S. workers as disposable. That comes to just under 57 million full- or part-time workers out of the nation’s workforce of 162 million.”
– Paul Osterman, author of “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment”
U.S. employers are leaning more and more heavily on adjunct, part-time and contract workers with lower pay and fewer rights. (Getty Images)
Contract employees, freelancers and marginal workers now make up about one-third of the U.S. labor pool, with job insecurity and dead-end employment expanding. Paul Osterman, a professor emeritus at MIT, writes about his research on “disposable workers” in this piece from The Conversation.
President Donald Trump said earlier this year he’d “do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections” this fall, declining to rule out sending the National Guard or federal law enforcement officers to polling locations throughout the country. Any such actions would lie outside the bounds of presidential power and the law, according to experts interviewed by States Newsroom. Jennifer Shutt reports on the limits of the law and how state officials are preparing for possible federal election interference.
Months after Ramón Morales Reyes was falsely accused by the Department of Homeland Security of penning letters threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump, his children Ana and Antonio say that their family continues to live in fear while awaiting the outcome of their father’s deportation case. Isiah Holmes has the story.
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Antonio Morales (center left) and his sister Ana (center right) share their experiences since their father was wrongly accused of threatening President Donald Trump. (Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner)
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