Finding opportunity out of underemployment

The World

Roughly 6.4 million American workers are underemployed?that means that over four percent of them would prefer full-time work but just can’t find it. In a few days the Department of Labor will post new underemployment numbers that are likely to be even higher. Marci Alboher is author of One Person/Multiple Careers and until recently the writer behind The New York Times blog, “Shifting Careers.”

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