So Just What Kind of Recovery is Los Angeles Having?

The LA Times recently carried an editorial observing that the city now has fewer recorded workers than in 1990. These results, from the Los Angeles Economy Project, suggest that 16% of the city’s workers are in underground economy jobs. More and more, this is the city of “bare-knuckles capitalism.”

The LA Times recently carried an editorial observing that the city now has fewer recorded workers than in 1990. These results, from the Los Angeles Economy Project, suggest that 16% of the city’s workers are in underground economy jobs. More and more, this is the city of “bare-knuckles capitalism.”