Quote:The issue of underemployment is rapidly moving to the forefront of our economy. A BA and 3 years of experience now barrs many entry level positions, and that experience only comes from unpaid internships that cost a person years of upward mobility had they been spent in a trade. We will always need service jobs, but you can't base a society on them, we need to invest in the other sectors before we have another Depression level labor crisis.

You certainly can't base society off them and I hope we do not get to that point.


Unemployment levels are a big concern and one I follow closely. Where I live the job market has become limited rather quickly. Our economy was once run off of big factory jobs. Those jobs paid well and allowed many (my own family included) to make a food living and retire off that living. Now one of the larger factories has closed completely. Another has downsized a large amount. A 3rd just recently closed the smaller plant in our town and consolidated that work to other locations. This town no longer thrives off those factories and other business has not moved in to replace them.


Our town made a large mistake many years ago in denying a Walmart warehouse from moving here. Instead Walmart placed it in a town 30 miles south and all those jobs and stimulation to the economy were lost.

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