U.S. Jobs: Reach for the Stars e or a Hammer
Insight on the News, May 11, 2004
Although preliminary even tentative the bureau's Employment Situation Summary suggests that high-value knowledge jobs are being replaced with low-value service and manual-labor jobs. The ensuing loss of income to U.S. workers surely will outweigh the lower prices paid for outsourcing. If I refuse to genuflect to this brave new world, it's because the idea of living in communities where applied scientists are unemployed while colonic hydrotherapists thrive isn't particularly enthralling.
Ilana Mercer is a columnist for WorldNet Daily.com. Her new book is Broad Sides: One Woman's Clash With a Corrupt Culture. Contact Mercer at www.ilanamercer.com.
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