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A big, national reason why more jobs aren't being created:

Posted: Sep 21, 2012

Link to CNC special report on jobs--"What's really going on out there."

"Discussions with numerous middle market company CEOs on the subject were striking in their uniformity, even though the industries represented were wildly different: All said their hiring was relatively flat because they were aggressively using technology to get more output from the same number of employees."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48326918/Technology_Grows_Freelance_Economy

NOTE: This is actually good news: A nationwide trend of employers concentrating on making existing employees MORE valuable--instead of eliminating even more jobs. My question is, will we see more unemployed people able to transition into jobs like these by making retraining more affordable?

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or like in the MT cases....getting more work out of them.... - anon9

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for less pay and benefits, instead of hiring more employees.

Yes, 'fraid so, but at least it is a change from - a strong trend of job elimination. But note

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that the national trend described is for greater production from specifically USE OF TECHNOLOGY, not from the greater exploitation that we are currently suffering in our field.

In MT, we are unusually hard hit because of an especially large number of people willing, and apparently able, to continue in the work for much less than they could get in other positions they could transition to.

FWIW, many industries have trouble filling jobs for lack of people available to do the work. Obviously, those wages are holding and even increasing in some cases.

I have been doing a lot of job searches recently... - anon3

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due to "elimination" of my three (3) different transcription jobs due to EMR and VR. What I am finding during my job search is that there are a LOT of available jobs out there, but the biggest thing is the college degrees involved. MANY of even the more menial jobs, like customer service rep, proofreader, etc REQUIRE a BA in "an associated field." MA in this BS in that...even "car salesman," which was never required in the past. This is a big deterent in finding a job in today's market....AND they still only start out paying at $10 an hour!! These aren't "jobs", this is "exploitation!" ANY kind of a college degree should be worth more than $10 an hour!

Agree. You know, when I went to college, a full schedule - at our local community college cost

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about $150 for me as a LOCAL resident, that was for five 3 to 4-credit classes. The state university cost more, but a tiny fraction of today's costs.

Costs weren't so low then (1970s) because they just were, they were low because our country invested in an higher education level for its populace. That is, state and local tax dollars built an educated populace. I paid for college by writing little checks, like at the grocery store, and when I finished college I didn't owe a dime.

When we think about how we came to be the greatest country in the world historians always look right to the role of government investment in higher education.

Contrast that with today, when students are literally viewed as consumers to be milked for everything that can be gotten from them. When soldiers who enlist for 6 years to get education benefits get out and discover they've been lied to, that what they do get won't pay for a degree. When going badly in debt for a degree carries a real risk of long-term financial disaster. A degree used to be available to any energetic, hopeful person willing to sacrifice his free time for it.

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