In the 21st century the opportunity society has disappeared. Middle
class jobs are scarce. Indeed, jobs of any kind are scarce. To stay
even with population growth from 2002 through 2011, the economy needed
about 14 million new jobs. However, at the end of 2011 there were only 1
million more jobs than in 2002. http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab1.htm
Only 426,000 of these jobs are in the private sector. The bulk of
the net new jobs consist of waitresses and bartenders and health care
and social assistance. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over
the 9 years, employment for waitresses and bartenders increased by
1,188,000. Employment in health care and social assistance increased
3,087,000. These two categories accounted for 1,000% of the net private
sector job growth.
As for manufacturing jobs, they not only did not grow with the
population but declined absolutely. During these nine years, 3.5 million
middle class manufacturing jobs were lost.
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