What are you defining as "underemployed" in this context?Here's the other problem with the chart. I count part time as anything less than full time. This chart is counting underemployed as full time.
I'm confused. The next quote answers that. It even says I was answering it. I started with "meaning ..."
Whether or not someone can live off of a job is irrelevant when measuring jobs. A teenager living with his/her parents, or a married person whose spouse works, might easily live off of a minimum wage, 5 hours/week job. While someone working 60 hours a week at twice minimum wage might not be making enough.Meaning you took a big step down and/or they offer you the 25-30 hour a week range. Explain how a low end worker lives on that.
"Full time" is 40 hours a week. 25-30 is "underemployed." Yet Sparky is counting them as full time. My point is pretty clear, I'm not sure what your point is.
No it doesn't. For these statistics, 40 hours is considered the standard for full time, so 35 plus hours is classified as full time (you have to go a little under to fully capture the real number).In fact many companies are specifically limiting employees to under 30 hours because that's when government fucks them with Obamacare. This counts them as full time.
If that's the case, than the whole chart is a lie because it shows part time workers as not going up. Underemployed are a fast growing segment of job workers. That part time is not going up is only possible if you don't include underemployed. Obamacare specifically is driving up underemployed because of the 30 hour threshhold