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there are at least 30 million illegals, and we have massive legal immigration every year. Then there are those kids in china that work for 1 dollar a year, so all the factory jobs in USA can't fairly compete.
This part is on individuals to accomplish. And I think it's worth noting that education doesn't need to equal college. The vocations offer steady employment opportunities, and we should completely include the training for those professions as education as much as traditional college is thought of as education. As individuals, we need to take that self-accountability, what have we done to better ourselves. Just complaining about the "illegals taking all the jobs" or whatever flavor of that idea people are spinning seems lazy, both intellectually and actually lazy in life.
There is so much wrong with this post, I don't even know where to begin.
Putting technology in schools helped accomplish much of what we see today. Other areas of the world that didn't make that push or waited were left behind. For awhile.
The entire point of this article is to say that this demographic is regressing towards 3rd world lifestyles. For much of the same reasons. All this while the rest of the western world has gotten better at this metric. Maybe you didn't read the article.
A lot of people out there without a pot to piss in nor window to throw it out of. Those folks face a tall task of getting out of poverty and that's before they start adding kids to the mix. Those kids end up consumers of limited resources and competition for a shrinking number of unskilled jobs. Around and around it goes.
The threat of nuclear war has really hurt the poverty situation. Previously we'd just put spears in their hands and ask them to walk in a straight line till they ran into someone that wanted to kill them. And after that we'd pay the survivors to clean up.
Technology education is wonderful, but there are a bunch of solid careers available in the traditional trades right now. So it isn't just a matter of creating new jobs, it is a matter of finding people to fill existing and vacant jobs. Just doing that would have very beneficial economic impacts.
Around here, a plumber with experience and that works for him/herself has no problem clearing $100,000/yr. This in an area where a new house in a good school district can be had <$200,000, gas and groceries are close to national lows, etc.
That's fine, but there's still a finite economic window for which to work in. Increasing capacity here isn't exactly going to raise GDP, for example.
What do you think GDP is?
Contractor/repair output does not drive GDP. In fact, I would believe they would be placed in the same category of lawyers in that they would be a subtractor though tbh I'm not sure how the accounting works there.
Exactly right and (unfortunately) exactly what many people don't want to hear.
I think there is some framing of that.
This is largely ignored, but the white blue-collar rejected the very institution that protected their ways of life by buying into Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan's anti-union rhetoric and actions. They voted for them 4 times despite that they were chipping away at their financial security. Those seeds were planted in the Nixon era (or earlier?), then shifted gears in the 1980s and it really didn't take long to start seeing major effects. They did a good job pitting citizen against citizen, while the corporations reaped easy profits. While that happened industrial companies were installing their replacements - not Mexicans, but robots. And when the time came to defend laborers, there was no organization to speak for the individual working man/woman against the organized company that employs people to figure out how to not pay you. The Democrats, who should have helped preserve them didn't. They turned their backs on them by the 1980s, probably because they accepted the death of unions, and Clinton performed the coup de grace on them with NAFTA. Clinton may not have fathered Neoliberalism, but he sure ushered it into the Democrat platform and now we have neither side of this two party system looking out for blue collar workers.
