The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy [longreads.com]
Last year I worked undercover at a temp agency in Los Angeles. While I took the assignment for an article I was working on, I’d also been unemployed for over a year. It seemed I was in that middling space of over-qualified for entry-level jobs, under-qualified for the jobs I most desired, and aged out or irrelevant as a labor union organizer, where I’d gained the bulk of my work experience. One altered resume later I joined a temp agency and became the biggest ghost of them all, a member of...