Dozens of occupations that collectively employ hundreds of thousands of Americans in decent-paying jobs are likely to shrink over the next decade, according to recent government data. These jobs face ...
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The U.S. job market is expected to grow by about 7% over the next decade. At that rate, roughly 10 million more Americans will be employed by 2024. However, these new jobs are not likely to be created ...
Dream big, or dream small. But in America, the most impossible dream these days is for a middle-class life. What’s the salary needed to be “middle class” in New York City? Average middle-wage jobs pay ...
The traditional path to a well-paying job often includes a four-year college degree, but that’s not the only route to success. Many middle-class jobs offer competitive salaries without requiring a ...
Perhaps nothing is as critical to America's future as the trajectory of the middle class and improving the prospects for upward mobility. With middle-class incomes stagnant or falling, we need to find ...
The U.S. job market is expected to grow by about 7% over the next decade. At that rate, roughly 10 million more Americans will be employed by 2024. However, these new jobs are not likely to be created ...
Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...
Reporting from Washington — For nearly 20 years Alfredo Molena made a middle-class living repairing bank ATMs in Los Angeles, despite being a high school dropout and immigrant from El Salvador. By ...
Esther Akutekha, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, has a good job as a public relations specialist that pays more than $50,000 a year. But because of the $1,440 a month rent on her studio apartment in ...
The United States shed 8.7 million jobs from the official onset of the Great Recession in December 2007 until the economy began regaining jobs in March 2010. Although the economy has since regained ...
“The American dream is dead for the majority of America,” financial guru Suze Orman told Forbes last year, speaking about her upcoming book The Money Class. The dream she was referring to isn’t a ...