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CCTV: Farnsworth on Mexico's Informal Labor Market

An estimated 60 percent of Mexico's workforce labors in the informal economy, creating a shortfall in tax revenues and leading to limited protections for those informal workers. What is the Mexican government doing to change the situation? COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth talks with CCTV about the impact on Mexico's economy of having a large informal sector and reforms undertaken by the government of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to formalize the country's workforce.

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