Two new studies by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have found that public policies to reduce consumption of added sugars through taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are effective and sustainable.
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A study led by a University of Illinois Chicago researcher uses a new approach to measure precarious, or low-quality, employment in the United States. And, according to those findings, precarious employment has increased 9% between 1988 and 2016.
Precarious employment, or P.E., is defined as low-quality employment, which is often characterized by low wages, job insecurity and irregular hours, making employment risky and stressful for the worker.
In her study, Changes in precarious employment in the United States: A longitudinal analysis, Vanessa Oddo, assistant professor in UIC s School of Applied Health Sciences, sought to create a multidimensional and continuous measure of P.E. in the U.S. She also set out to describe changes in precarious employment over time, both overall and within subgroups. The paper is published in the