Last year, London councils paid private landlords to house more than 80 homeless families in Thurrock, which put a strain on the borough's already precarious homeless problem.
Worse, this imagined conflict can be a smoke-screen for the government's failure to effectively address the growing problem of precarious work, now extending to almost 40% of all jobs.
Many people on Wall Street and in Washington dismiss such claims, arguing that while short-sellers may have accelerated some stock declines, the real problem was the precarious state of the companies' own finances.
And as Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem".
He says that while contracts differ from one institution to the next, there are systemic problems with this "precarious" employment including overwork and pay.
Still, in the early 1990s, the bank was in a precarious state because of its problems in Latin America, coupled with losses in commercial real estate and a weak economy.
The security situation in the country continued to be somewhat precarious, with the persistence of problems related to drug trafficking, the demobilization of militias, and the traditional divisions among warlords.
In reality, they all created a massive deportation machinery and militarized border, and reinforced an ascendant right-wing explanation that helped suffering or anxious people make sense of their problems and the precarious world around them.
Significant parent-related job stressors arose primarily from insufficient support for working with parents in financially precarious positions and/or with social problems.
