Chart of the Day: Yet More Bad Job News

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:



Chart of the Day: Yet More Bad Job News

— By Kevin Drum
| Wed Jul. 27, 2011 11:42 AM PDT


Via Economix, this chart comes from a new study by the National Employment Law Project, and it shows yet another way in which our jobless recovery is grim news. As you can see, we lost only a small number of low-paying jobs during the Great Recession and we've since gained almost all of them back. But mid-wage and high-wage occupations? Those are the jobs that really drive recovery, and they're still very deeply in the hole. Ugh.





http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/07/chart-day-more-bad-job-news

[bvar22]

1. Always the pessimist.

Those NEW High Paying NAFTA jobs that we were promised will be showing up Any Day Now,
THEN you are gonna look stupid.



Yep...Any Day Now!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

2. OR You Could Look At That Chart And Conclude.................

..................every one of those numbers has improved. Some greatly.

[jtuck004]

4. You bet! If your goal in life is to be a home health care aide for minimum wage,

or serve drinks to fat tourists, those drinks with the little umbrellas in them, for even less (hey, everyone knows you can live off their tips) this is great news!

If on the other hand you wanted to make enough to support roads, schools, police, fire, to have a home and not be beholden to a landlord, to go to school beyond the 8th grade or send your kids to college, to have food you can afford, the report is really bad news.

The only worse news is that we are watching the clowns provide a circus over debt when we ought to be talking about how to rebuild good jobs.

[SoCalDem]

3. There are too many "throwaway" people still needing work

Who are the throwaways? A guy wrote a book about it.. (I'll have to google )..anyway his premise is that there are millions of people who used to be able to find meaningful work that supported families, and a decent life, but as mechanization and computerization came along these jobs just went away....but the people who had been doing those jobs are still with us, and still need to earn a living..

When those people were relegated to the truly menial, grungy jobs, most people did not care one way or the other, but as the obsolescence creeps higher and higher up the ladder, NO ONE is ""safe" anymore.

The party is truly over, and there are millions of these people who have literally been thrown away. There will be some jobs here and there for them, but that;s about the best they can hope for, and most will never again earn a real living wage.

There are still "throwaways" being "minted" as kids fail to graduate or do graduate and find out they can never afford college. ..or attend college just long enough to rack up mountains of debt they cannot afford.

The real shame of our country is that when people do not have the skills necessary for living-wage jobs, their whole family goes down the drain, and decades of poverty for the whole family is usually what follows.

What DO we do with/for these people. They are HERE, and many will be here for a long time. Their children are here too, and all ages are competing for the same jobs..low paying ones that disappear as fast as the corporate wizards can figure out how to get people in Bangladesh or Viet Nam to do that work.