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Article: Part-time workers a large part of the growing labor market.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2004
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Byline: Bob Fernandez
PHILADELPHIA _ Waiting for a job interview in the Accu Staffing office in Cherry Hill, Pa., the other day, 35-year-old Seth Rosen was seeking to catch one of the biggest waves of this economic expansion _ a part-time job.
Rosen is a computer systems administrator who has been without full-time work in his profession since 2001. To earn money this summer, he resorted to digging ditches and other manual labor for a construction company.
He has plenty of company. Even as the unemployment rate has declined in 2004 and economic output is expanding, the growth in the U.S. labor market is coming from part timers _ workers who ...