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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] america's choice
I think Jim Horn must be suffering from commission reportitis. It's a disease easily come by in the last 25 years. "America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages" was Marc Tucker's 1990 contribution to the babel. The new one "Tough Choices or Tough Times" again shows Tucker's ability to craft a clever title. What bothers me just a bit is that the call for higher skills and different skills is paralleled by an ever increasing Wal-Martization in the jobs that are actually being created. The number of retail sales jobs totals more than the 10 fastest growing jobs combined. We have 23 cashiers for every engineer and no shortage of engineers. The ten occupations with the most jobs projected in 2014 by the BLS are virtually all low-skill, low-pay service sector positions. At least producing reports keeps the various commissioners off the streets. Jerry
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