Saturday, March 8, 2014

We Need To Fix The Economy Before This Chart Becomes Our Reality

One of the saddest truths about the so-called economic recovery is that the middle-class jobs lost in the recession are being replaced by low-paying ones. But the even sadder truth is that the situation isn't going to improve for a while.
Over the next decade, a significant number of the fastest-growing jobs in America will be in low-wage sectors, according to projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The New America foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, recently laid those projections out in one extremely worrisome chart:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/low-wage-jobs-future_n_4913058.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

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