We Added 1.6 Million Jobs in 2011— Where Did They Come From? - Jordan Weissmann - Business - The Atlantic
It’s part of an evolving split in the American workforce: On the one hand, we’re growing high-skilled jobs in offices and hospitals. On the other, we’re producing low-wage service jobs. There’s not a ton growing in the middle. Even this year’s manufacturing growth only reclaimed a small portion of the millions of factory jobs lost to the economic downturn.
