摘要：A disproportionate share of temporary help agency em-ployees consists of young, female, predominantly minor-ity workers, many of them recent or current welfare re-cipients. In 2001, for example, nearly 60 percent of temporary services workers were women, half of them between the ages of 16 and 34. And whereas the propor-tion of black and Hispanic workers in traditional employ-ment¡ªaround 11 percent¡ªgenerally reflected their share of the population, blacks and Hispanics accounted for 25 and 18 percent, respectively, of temporary agency employees.1In 1990, about 14 percent of women in tem-porary services supplemented their earnings with means- tested welfare benefits, compared to 3 percent of all women with permanent work and 6 percent of permanent part-time workers.
