These Ain't Your Grandfather's "Jobs"--Why Friday's Rip Should Be Sold | David Stockman

`` In economic terms, they do not remotely resemble your grandfather's industrial era economy when a "job" lasted 40 to 50 hours per week all year round; and most of what the BLS survey counted as "jobs" paid a living wage. Not now. Not even close... since the year 2000 the number of jobs in what we have termed the Part-Time Economy has steadily increased. But these jobs in retail, bars, restaurants, hotels, amusement parks, stadiums and temp agencies average less than 30 hours per week and generate annual pay of less than $20,000. From an economic viewpoint, they are gigs, not jobs.''