The Great Challenge of Our Time: Re-Creating America's Great Middle Class

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by Randy Morrow - Oct. 17, 2009

The trend toward taking employees off the payroll only to hire them again as contractors — without health benefits, pensions, sick days, vacations — began in the 1970s with janitors, construction workers and truckers. Now highly skilled technology workers who helped transform the global economy are among the downsized, the outsourced, the contracted-out.

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