Posted on 09/02/2012 4:57:55 PM PDT by Innovative
While a majority of jobs lost during the downturn were in the middle range of wages, a majority of those added during the recovery have been low paying, according to a new report from the National Employment Law Project.
"The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a 'good jobs' deficit," said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group.
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Shall I list the questions for you again?
The last number I saw was 3.8% unemployment in the tech sector. Silicon Valley can’t find enough skilled people.
Yep. Used to be that a father with a low-paying job took a second one to support his family. The whole point of getting a professional education was to not get in that situation.
For discussion purposes, yea, go ahead. I'm not keeping inventory and have just been responding to replies as they come in. If you want a more structured discussion, I'm okay with that. Should we draft and approve an agenda listing the different topics and then go over each one by one?
BTW, that was directed at kearnyirish2
I got that. But I am losing track of who is replying in this thread
Nowadays in my area just about any job that deals with the public (bank teller, cashier, etc.) requires Spanish or Portuguese in addition to English; many of those fall-back part-time jobs are not even available to Americans who were straight-A students in school.
It is a national disgrace.
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