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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 18 2017, @03:39AM (10 children)
Try creating a significant business only using workers. No management. No owner. See how far you get without ambition and inspiration.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @03:58AM (9 children)
I didn't say there is no management.
The Workers chose their management democratically: One worker == One vote.
In a worker-owned cooperative, The Workers are the owners.
Even someone stupid should be able to understand that.
Not only are worker-owned cooperatives common throughout the world, they're becoming more common.
I've mentioned (probably over 100 times now) a company that has done this since 1956 (Mondragon).
You stupidly refuse to acknowledge that it exists.
I've also mentioned the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of worker-owned co-ops in northern Italy.
You stupidly refuse to acknowledge that those exist.
Quit being stupid.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 18 2017, @05:03AM (6 children)
Who owns the company is irrelevant. What matters is how it's run and that is never decided democratically in any business that does anything impressive. In the end you either have someone at the top with the ambition and inspiration to create something spectacular or you do not get something spectacular. End of story.
Yeah, you can put together a handful of socialists and they can limp by. Hell, maybe even grow a little. They're never going to excel against a one man with drive, vision, and the ability to create though. When you remove the reward for excellence, you remove excellence.
Maybe that's your goal though. Socialism is top to bottom about envy and nothing irks others more than being simply better than them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @10:13PM (5 children)
maybe even grow a little
Mondragon started in 1956 with 6 worker-owners.
Currently they have over 100,000 worker-owners in 40 countries on 5 continents.
You are a fool.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 18 2017, @10:26PM (4 children)
Sit down and do a wee bit of math if you would. Compare those numbers to how fast successful businesses grow in the US. Feel a bit silly now, don't you?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @11:00PM (3 children)
Some people just can't think outside the Capitalist must-always-maximize-old-memes box.
Mondragon doesn't seek to maximize growth.
...nor does it seek to maximize returns for stockholders (the idle rich); it has no stockholders.
The goal of Mondragon (et al.) is to maximize social stability for the communities of its workers.
It's not simply about predatory extraction of wealth for people on the other side of the city/state/country/planet.
Exploitive slave economies are an anachronism.
Exploitive feudal economies are an anachronism.
The exploitive boom-and-bust Capitalist system has dramatically demonstrated yet again that it is time to replace that with something more stable.
There are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of examples of Socialist workplaces worldwide.
They work well and they serve The Workers (which is their purpose).
Your malformed brain, however, will never grasp this concept.
Reactionaries (such as you) hold the belief that "There will always be poor people".
Classists (such as you) believe that some people, despite busting their asses all week, don't deserve a paycheck that allows them a comfortable life.
YOU are an anachronism.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 19 2017, @11:35PM (2 children)
Idiot. If it has owners it has people who benefit from maximized profit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @03:10AM (1 child)
There are maximize-profit outfits, there are non-profit outfits, and there are outfits for whom "enough" is enough.
It's sad how for some people "enough" is never enough.
ISTM that these people have tiny dicks and constantly feel a need to compensate.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 20 2017, @10:29AM
Probably but they cause no harm except to failures who are also consumed by avarice and even that is only perceived harm rather than actual harm. Wealth is not remotely finite; having a hissy that someone has more than you is no less greedy than those who're compensating.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Monday June 19 2017, @03:03PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @11:13PM
There are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of examples of Socialist workplaces worldwide who haven't taken that route.
...and it sounds like you're talking about an ESOP, which is still Capitalist and is something entirely different.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]