Federal Job Outsourcing Adds to Growth of Uninsured
The number of federal contract employees doubled to 5.4 million from 1990 to 2005, according to Paul Light, a political scientist at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and specialist on government employees. These workers do not share the same health benefits that federal employees receive.
- "How Government Adds to Ranks of Uninsured" (Zhang, Wall Street Journal, 3/25).