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How Did This Happen?

In: The Shrinking American Middle Class

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We have seen that there is a widespread feeling among the American middle class that something is seriously wrong with the job market. Earlier generations of Americans seemed to take for granted a feeling of security in their careers and, for the most part, that feeling does not exist for today’s labor force. Even college-educated workers who thought they had done “everything right” by getting an education and launching what they thought would be stable careers find themselves wrestling with unexpected challenges in paying college loans, child care, mortgages, health insurance, or even retirement. It seems like jobs are plentiful, as The Economist recently wrote, “for low and high-skilled workers, but employment opportunities for middle-skilled laborers have become much scarcer.”1 If you can design an iPad or work as a caretaker, you can find a job. There just is not enough in between.

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  • Joseph Dillon Davey, 2012. "How Did This Happen?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Shrinking American Middle Class, chapter 0, pages 39-51, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29507-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137295071_4
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