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When states suffer a widespread loss of jobs, the damage extends to the next generation, where college attendance drops among the poorest students, says new research from Duke University. As a result, states marked by shuttered factories or dormant mines also show a widening gap in college attendance between rich and poor, the authors write.
In states that suffered a 7 percent job loss, college attendance by the poorest youth subsequently dropped by 20 percent, even when financial aid increased. The pattern also persisted across a wide range of states, despite variations in public college tuition rates.
Source: Duke University
Excellent. Maybe now we can get over this idea that our precious little progeny are too good for blue collar work and fill some of the six million jobs that nobody can be found to do.
[Editor's note: On my checking of the '6 million jobs' statement, I came across this article from September last year.]
[J]ob openings at 5.9 million in July set a new all-time record. Yet despite all the anxiety we hear about disappearing factory jobs, the number of unfilled manufacturing jobs in July was at the highest level in recent years. So why are they still open?
Factory work has evolved over the past 15 years or so as companies have invested in advanced machinery requiring new skill sets. Many workers who were laid off in recent decades – as technology, globalization and recession wiped out lower-skilled jobs – don't have the skills to do today's jobs.
[...] Gary Miller [...] started at Ohio-based Kyocera Precision Tools Inc. in 1989, it employed 550 production workers. Since then it has shed half of its workers; yet it now produces twice as much [...] Mr. Miller, who is now the company's director of training, struggles to find technicians with the electrical and mechanical skills needed to operate and maintain the complex machines. One electrical maintenance job went unfilled for over a year as he searched for someone with an associate's or bachelor's diploma in manufacturing engineering.
[...] The study found it takes an average of 94 days to recruit for highly-skilled roles such as scientist or engineer, and 70 days for skilled production workers.
Source: Value Walk
Additionally, there are apparently plenty of jobs in food service. Starting in March of 2010 and continuing through April of 2017, there have been 86 consecutive month of payroll gains for America's waiters and bartenders. Since 2014, 800,000 "food service and drinking places" jobs have been created, over the same period the number of manufacturing jobs created has been just 105,000.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:12PM (2 children)
There's a typo in the story
Actually reads
Lets see how many lies we can find in the fake news story with a little googling
First of all KYOCERA Precision Tools hiring page is
http://www.kyoceraprecisiontools.com/careers/ [kyoceraprecisiontools.com]
Lets find those cool tech jobs that have been unfillable for a year. Oh wait, I see only one job open at this shitty company and its not even in Ohio its in Indiana and its not even a tech job its sales "Technical Sales Engineer - Medical Market" Requires a BS degree in sales or marketing, although they'll consider engineering.
The problem this shitty company has, is first of all they are obvious liars when their own web page disagrees with one of their stooges, secondly they have fired 250 people in the last couple years so only a desperate person would apply (50:50 odds you're getting downsized in the next couple years) and thirdly they trimmed 50% of the fat and STILL have useless positions like "director of training" now a directorship implies a couple manangers with a couple supes with a couple grunts no wonder they're being forced by the marketplace to downsize and the very few production workers left have to work really hard to pay the salaries of the deadweight.
If you want to do "electrical maintenance" get in the trade union and earn $30-$40/hr as an industrial maint electrician, not $7.25 at some deadweight company full of "directors of training" but no frontline employees anymore. Why would anyone intelligent enough to do that job go to college to get $100K of loans to attend BLM protest for four years when they could be getting paid fat stacks of cash as an electrician doing more or less the same work? The educational-industrial complex or bubble is ever so close to its tipping point. I would not be surprised if by 2020 half the schools out there today are closed. We're that close to the tipping point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @05:00PM (1 child)
if you're going to try to get juiced into a trade union you better pick a state that the unions haven't killed the economy of yet. :)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @03:41AM
People who celebrate their own disempowerment astound me.
Why Union Contracts Are Good For The Country (Most Workers Have No Clue) by David Macaray [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]
It Wasn't Globalization That Killed Working Class Wealth (It Was The Death Of Unions) by Robert Reich [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [alternet.org]
Meanwhile, Reactionaries have managed to turn 28 states [wikipedia.org] into Right-to-Work (For Less) states.
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