Essay Archive - Technology Jobs
Technology Jobs
The microeconomic picture of the U.S. has changed immensely since 1973,
and the trends are proving to be consistently downward for the nation's high
school graduates and high school drop-outs. “Of all the reasons given for the
wage squeeze – international competition, technology, deregulation, the decline
of unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It has
favored the educated and the skilled,” says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of
U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation
have declined by about a quarter for high school....
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