&gt; While I think that every job should be able to support a person, at least when scaled up to full-time hours<p>I think it&#x27;s widely accepted that any full-time job should be able to support a person. At the same time we want it to be possible for an employer to offer e.g. a 5hr&#x2F;week position (which can be valuable to all kinds of underprivileged folk - those with health problems that make full-time work impossible, the elderly, teenagers - or as a second job for people in temporarily strained financial circumstances) without having to take on all the responsibilities of employing someone full-time. We&#x27;ve tried to implement policies that reflect that, but per the article we see e.g. universities limiting the number of hours that adjuncts work so that they aren&#x27;t obliged to pay for healthcare.<p>The gap here is people have ended up putting together multiple part-time jobs so they&#x27;re effectively working full-time. This is partly an unintended consequence of legislation, but it&#x27;s not obvious to me how to fix it - if someone&#x27;s working for six different employers, what responsibilities do each have? How do we make sure someone fired from five of their six jobs receives unemployment, without giving it to someone in full-time employment who gets fired from their minor side gig? (Much as I support basic income, that&#x27;s not a politically realistic answer yet - so what are the practical policy steps we can do today to move in the right direction for these folks?)