Technology Jobs
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The microeconomic picture of the U.S. has changed immensely since 1973,
and the trends are proving to be consistently downward for the nation's high
school graduates and high school drop-outs. “Of all the reasons given for the
wage squeeze – international competition, technology, deregulation, ....
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.... proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! “There
is clear evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories
already exceeds the demand for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research
Director of Welfare Reform Network. In view of these facts, I wonder if these
trends are good or bad for society. “The danger of the information age is that
while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology, in
the long run it is potentially se ....
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