In These Times: Shortage of Jobs and Equality, Not Skills, at Heart of Unemployment Crisis

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Shortage of Jobs and Equality, Not Skills, at Heart of Unemployment Crisis

Tuesday
Jun 21, 2011
1:26 pm

By Roger Bybee


When it comes to jobs, Republicans and the Right unfailingly roll out the same solution no matter what the economic situation nor how many times it has failed: more tax cuts for the Job Creators in Corporate America and the investor class.

The Democrats, for their part, have also tended to promote the same mantra on unemployment without regard to the lack of job opportunities or how serious America’s job shortage has become.

Unemployment is back over 9 percent again and we risk falling into another recession, much as the United States did when President Roosevelt prematurely pulled back on stimulus and job-creation programs in 1937.

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THE PROBLEM IS JOBS, NOT LACK OF SKILLS

The fundamental problems are jobs and inequality, not the lack of skills among the workforce. Workers are essentially losing at a game of musical chairs where jobs are disappearing and not being replaced. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11547/shortage_of_jobs_and_equality_not_skills_at_heart_of_job_crisis/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Baby boomers are the best educated generation in history.

And I'm one of them. I know lots of people with advanced degrees. Rice University graduates, and others. I've got a Juris Doctor, which is a standard law degree. Ninety semester hours of hell.

But we can't get jobs.

[amborin]

2. kr

[InkAddict]

3. I graduated cum laude with the biggest degree I could afford

without debt...for a field the RW'ers of my state did not support though it was indeed touted as THE "hot" career to try - Now I know why...health information/technology - great careers to outsource/offshore.