Business Services Industry
Temporary Jobs Lift Women's Fortunes, Study Says.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Teresa M. McAleavy, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 13--Low-wage earners are getting a boost from the temporary services industry.
New research has found that the temp industry is helping women move to permanent jobs and away from public assistance.
A statistical study and separate survey, both from the University of Missouri at Columbia, found that the temporary services industry grew five times faster than overall employment between 1972 and 2000, bolstering the prospects of low-wage-earning women on public assistance.
"We found that temp work actually does help move people from being on welfare and not working at all into eventual permanent job positions," said Kenneth Troske, an...
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