El Pais documents the destiny of today’s workforce. Hundreds of thousands of people walk in and out of the Social Security offices on a daily basis. A quarter of the contracts that have been signed so far in 2015 (1,333,837 out of 5,476,901) are for less than a week’s work. Only 7.9 percent of contracts signed in May were permanent. None of these temporary workers can make any plans, go on vacation, get sick, take out a mortgage or even think about accumulating enough Social Security contributions to have an adequate pension when they retire.
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