Businesses have sharply increased their use of outsourcing and flexible staff over the last twenty years. A study by the current Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that approximately 90% of firms now utilize some type of contingent work (Abraham, 1990). The increased use of flexible staff, such
Twenty-two percent of working families in Ohio with one to three children under age twelve do not earn enough income to afford basic necessities like food, housing, health care, and child care, even during a period of national prosperity. The same percentage holds for the Great Lakes states, according to
Some 36 percent of Ohio taxpayers will not get the full amount of the highly-touted “rebate checks” that will be mailed this summer as a result of the President’s just-passed tax bill. That translates into 2.01 million Ohio taxpayers who will not get the full amount of the promised rebate
Some 39 percent of American taxpayers will not get the full amount of the highly-touted “rebate checks” that will be mailed this summer as a result of the President’s just-passed tax bill. That translates into 51 million taxpayers who will not get the full amount of the promised rebate checks.
Lake, Snell, Perry & Associates One in four working women in the U.S. today holds a job with normal hours at night or on weekends, as do 23 percent of women in Ohio, according to a new poll conducted by Lake, Snell, Perry & Associates for the AFL-CIO, the umbrella
Despite the strong economic growth and tight labor markets of recent years, family income disparities in Ohio are significantly greater in the late 1990s than they were during the 1980s. Income gaps between the richest fifth of families and the poorest fifth of families increased substantially in Ohio, as did
