Progressive One

One of the main challenges for men is the need to adapt to the labor market as it is, rather than as it once was. As Georgetown economist Harry Holzer argues, the American middle class is neither dying nor hollowing out, it is simply changing. The fastest employment growth in recent decades has come from traditionally feminine, “pink collar” sectors, which men are still reluctant to enter. Many of these are what we have labeled “HEAL” jobs—health, education, administration, and literacy—which employ growing numbers of Americans, but remain dominated by women.

Careful empirical work shouldn’t be turned into simplistic narratives of national decline. China isn’t killing marriage. Trade isn’t killing marriage. They are at most small elements of a much richer, and more complex story.

http://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2017/03/10/are-chinese-factories-really-killing-marriage-in-america/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=44446813

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Automation has cost more jobs that globalism, but political campaigns can't succeed against robots, so...................

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Would you prefer a country without robots? Get rid of your car, there are robotic devices in them. Robotic controls are in your washing machine to open and close valves for water and change from one cycle to another. Your computer has robotic programing in it. Go to a hospital and refuse all services that include robotic controls and see how your surgery goes. Unfortunately jobs requiring no skills are few and far between. Add to that people who have no education, no skills and no drive at all are the ones who reproduce at faster rates, now the Muslims are adding to that rush to the bottom of functionality.

moldyoldy

Automation is adopted slowly by US companies, while foreign companies building new factories in the US, such as Japanese car makers, embrace automation. It reminds me of the Toyota manufacturing system which was based on US ideas but adopted by the Japanese first. Then the US followed suit years later. We are reluctant to change, but we know we need to. Coal is not coming back, our kids need to study robotics.

F.D.R.

Everything in moderation. Automation is wonderful - to a point ! There's a lot of talk lately on self driving cars and delivery drones, both of which are already in real world testing. Does nobody see the problems here? Do you think no one is already working on ways to hack these things? How long before gangs or criminals start intercepting those delivery drones? But bigger than all that is control, he who controls the technology controls the users. If you think the government's toying with digital currency is a great idea wait till you're deleted from the 'system'. Some things are better off left alone. But one thing is certain the U.S. had better bring manufacturing back home if we're to survive the long haul. We've become dependent on other's for just about everything we use on a daily basis.