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Where Will The Jobs Be This Decade?

Interactive: The Decade Ahead in JobsI don’t know about you, but it’s still hard getting back into the swing of things after the holidays. Call me crazy though — I am almost grateful to be back in some type of routine … almost.

While thinking about what I wanted to write about today, my uncle Bob e-mailed me with an interesting article he heard on NPR yesterday morning about where the jobs will be in the coming decade, and I wanted to share it with you.

The gist of the article says that it’s going to take the U.S. a while to recover from the slump we’ve been in, but that in the next 10 years, we should expect to see about 15 million new jobs. The author predicts strong job growth for the high-paying jobs and the low-paying jobs at both ends of the labor market, but less growth in the middle to replace the well-paying manufacturing jobs the U.S. is losing.

I’ve included highlights from the article in this post, but for the full story, click here

Where The Jobs Will Be This Decade

by John Ydstie

This month we begin a new decade with a big economic question: Where are the jobs?

The first decade of this century ended as a disaster for employment. Since the recession began two years ago, the U.S. has lost more than 7 million jobs.

Just to regain the jobs we’ve lost will be a huge challenge, says Harvard University labor economist Lawrence Katz. “We would need well over 300,000 [jobs] a month for four years in a row just to make up what we’ve lost in the last couple of years,” Katz says.

Jobs On The Horizon
Katz thinks it could take half a decade or more just to get to the employment levels we had two years ago. Still, he expects that during this new decade, the U.S. economy will eventually create 15 million new jobs, with the unemployment rate falling to around 5 percent.

The real question, he says, is what kind of jobs they’ll be. “The worrisome trend is something I’ve called the polarization of the labor market.”

Katz says the U.S. has experienced this for the past 15 years or so. It results in strong job growth for the high-paying jobs and the low-paying jobs at both ends of the labor market, but less growth in the middle to replace the well-paying manufacturing jobs the U.S. is losing.

Projections for the next decade from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that elements of that basic trend will continue.

Top 10 List

Dixie Sommers, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, recites a list of the 10 occupations that the BLS expects will provide the greatest number of new jobs over the next decade. These include:

1. Registered nurses

2. Home health aides

3. Customer service representatives

4. Food preparation and serving workers

5. Personal and home care aides

6. Retail salespersons

7. Office clerks

8. Accountants

9. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants

10. Postsecondary teachers

Six of the top seven fastest-growing occupations are low-skill, low-wage jobs.

Less Training Required
For those who want to spend less time in school than accountants and nurses, but still make good money, Sommers suggests firefighting or becoming a sales representative for a manufacturer — especially one making technical and scientific products. Sales representatives can make about $70,000 a year, she says.

Finally, over the next decade, the best-paying, fastest-growing job that also requires little training is truck driving. According to the BLS, the folks driving the big tractor-trailer rigs earn about $37,000 a year on average.

358 comments
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Cathy
Cathy

Also at least i/2 of the jobs I applied for have been posted again,why do they keep posting if they have people that need jobs and are qualified

Cathy
Cathy

I have been out of work almost 3 months now,I have sent out at least 30 resume's.out of which only 3 received interviews with,still no job,Why do these employers get your hopes up and call for interview then after not hiring you.The qualifications are good,what is it,not pretty enough,to fat.to skinny,to black,to white,wrong age etc,I think they should at least call or e-mail back to let you know something.

Guss Tuskin
Guss Tuskin

The US is in a "jobless recovery". This is exactly what an economic depression is. Big
business, the government and a decressing
portion of the population function economically. The people of Japan know this
since they are in their second decade of economic depression. Their real estate lost
85% of it's value. Jobs are extremely hard to come by, no matter what your education level. US is headed in the same direction. Economic
policy and big business is the sole engineer
of the plague that has fallen on the US. Misinformation a major component. Jobs will
not come back for 10-15 years, if at all.

DWEETTA ADAMS RN
DWEETTA ADAMS RN

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Shannon

LRoy

Give me a break.

Not every physician, PA-C, NP or RN works at a Catholic hospital/clinic. And of those that do, even fewer work in a field that provide services for abortions and/or prescribing birth control. My guess would be almost none of them do.

Your ridiculous comment overexaggerates policies that might come from "Obama Care". Nobody will have a gun put to their head--required to practice a medicine they don't agree with. It never has. It never will.

It will remain a choice. Simple as that.

Whatever source(s) you may have found to back your thinking has a flaw... you actually have to believe in God and Christianity to agree with it. And science and religion haven't always played nice.

If you would like a clearer more accurate view on a wider portion of the medical population I suggest you look at websites and articles outside of ones pushing conservative, pro-life propaganda.

Rao Fu
Rao Fu

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God bless you all

Dardan
Dardan

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S
S

forgot to add...books are an additional $500 a semester so make that about $1,000 a semester, not including transportation, parking and the dreaded school supplies which has now become a racket in and of itself. Most important is the irregular schedule, sometimes you have day classes, sometimes nights, sometimes weekends, you have to be willing to sacrifice everything, it is not something you can do in your spare time. Science courses require lab time on the school's schedule, not yours, and not reading a book late at night in bed.

S
S

The reason we don't have enough nurses here is because there aren't enough schools to provide the education and the length of time it takes to get certified. (two years for the RN program preceded by at least one year of pre-requisites to even apply to a nursing program) Not to mention that it requires going to school full time during the day which doesn't allow for any kind of day job even though you've potentially doubled your cost of living. Even a cheap community college is about $600 a semester and they don't even have the money to provide a sufficient number of courses for their students. So, unless you're independently wealthy or living for free somewhere, it's not really an option. Nurses from other countries can come in without all of the education and start working right away. But, if you can afford to spend four or five years going to school, it seems to be a rewarding career in the end. I am trying to pull it off right now, thought it would be an easy two years...my counselour burst that bubble right away. 6 pre-requisite courses, many which have pre-requisites themselves, each of those courses only allow 50 students in each class, only three classes offered each semester, only 150 lucky people get in those classes each semester, often a lottery, do the math...followed by the application process to get into the nursing program (over 3,000 applicants for 120 openings each year). Yes, the jobs are there, but getting qualified is next to impossible. Maybe we should go to school in those other countries where it's cheaper to live anyway and come back here to start a new career sooner...???

Dana C. H.
Dana C. H.

Peole should have started paying closer attention when Corporations were given "personhood", and they were allowed to close factories here and re-open them overseas where there'd be no regulations for little things like--oh, let's see...SAFETY.
Should have started paying more attention when the quality of our schools started slipping because no one wants to hire people that are too smart to figure out if they're being exploited.
The Corporations are now able to buy--I mean contribute as much money was they want to any politician.
Find out just who your representatives REALLY care about: you? Or their big-wig corporate 'donors' who pull their strings to get laws written to benefit THEM.
Service sector jobs??? Retail jobs???? WTF!?!
REALLY???
Even famers are being paid to use oil-based fertilizers and pesticides on crops like corn and soybeans...that are so far-removed from real corn and soybeans that they have to be processed into stuff they put into processed foods.
We did this to ourselves. We're doing it to ourselves.
Look to the politicians who are trying to convince you that cutting taxes...for the richest 2% of the country (aka NOT YOU)...will benefit the middle and lower classes.
Those are the people responsible for the b.s. we're hip deep in now.

taxpayer
taxpayer

This list of jobs is so sad for the USA. Have we lowered the bar enough yet? It's sickening that we have dumbed down our country to be politically correct. This country has always been leaders and innovators. Please stop the downhill spiral by catering to this mindset!

Brian
Brian

A year ago, I visited a large manufacturing plant in Florida that employed 2000. They were autioning off all of the equipment after laying off everyone. All the manufacturing equipment was sold and stripped from the building. I quickly realized that this old established business will never start-up again and none of those layed off will ever work there again. This is happening everywhere and we are losing manufacturing. The empty building is still empty and most likwly will never again provide employment. How can we expect to find re-employment from these disappering businesses?

beatric
beatric

Hello I hope everyone that is having a hard time will get a break and everything works out for the good. Our economy is horible right now, I said years ago with our jobs outsourced to other countries that we were in for a rude awakening. Most people thought I was crazy, well here we are! What can we do about getting our jobs back? I don't have the answer, I am unemployed from the mortgage business because my bank went under like so many banks. I am now working on my masters in criminal justice, I have a low paying, humiliating job where I have to suck it up a lot. Good Luck to everyone what comes around goes around and eventually other countries will demand better treatment for their labor and big companies will move from overseas back to America. How long will that take? Unfortunately I don't know, go back to school while you can, try to stay healthy mentally and physically and enjoy being alive everything will work out in the end, it just should, shouldn't it?

Ton
Ton

I really needed this pep talk, raw and uncut. Thanks

brandon cole
brandon cole

Where and how do I get more information regarding this profession? Thanks..

Shiju
Shiju

I work in the medical profession and I see this everyday. Malpractice suits here they come. This article is of no benefit. Use your God given brain and don't believe the hype. Its time for Americans to rebel against this mass media indoctrination.

Shiju
Shiju

You understand

Big Business count on American stupidity called hyper-consumerism.

Shiju
Shiju

College loans= wasted investment and a lifetime of debt.

Shiju
Shiju

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Shiju
Shiju

Jack! You are enlightened! Drop the "American Dream". The ultimate nightmare!

Shiju
Shiju

Dear Pam:

I noticed you started iut by talking about , the house etc. The so called "American Dream""

After reading your experience, I am convinced that the American Dream is truly a nightmare. I am going with my wit and will leave a job and move to the pacific northwest. American life has turned into a community of ruthless people who have no honor, no integrity and no morals. Bully employees are now rampid. Your husband needs to look for happiness. Houses, cars and expensive education are all burdens. Unfortunately, we are all brainwashed through the boob tube( of which I no longer own), computers and all media sources that you must possess and consume at rates of pure craziness in order to be worthy in a worthlesss society. Consumerism at criminal rates is the cause of mass unhappiness in America. The possessions we own will make us make poor decisions and feel trapped ( to pay for all the stuff). As you can see with the economic mess our country is in and lies about incessantly, the only way to be free is to let go of a dream that has been manufactured for you and go after ÿour happiness instead. Too many of us tie our whole life around job identity. Honest work is good work. The man or woman you are lies in your honor, your integrity and your morality. We are firstly God's children and no phoney society created by financial gurus, who lack honor, integrity and morality.

I suggest we all "think"something Americans are not use to doing. We go with the current fad or what everyone else is doing. Is the economy in which we live really good for us? Is our constant obssessive behavior with consuming good for us? The American "dream"as "marketed to us from birth is as follows:

Brainwash #1
After birth start much of your education ( not from your mother) but from media created children's shows and tapes and other child caretakers who could care less. ( day care because you must run after the "dream"and both parents work to pay for it!)

Brainwash #2
Go to school where you are surrounded and educated by adults who are media brainwashed and have become drones who go along with what is proprted to be the way one should live.

Brainwash #4
Exposure to financial vehicles( credit cards, loans, etc) from an early age age.

Brainwash #5
Graduate from 12 years of school with no viable skills. Many cannot read write or compute. If you have a car you have been sucked in the upside down car "loan" an abomination that the current financial reform bill did not address (lobbyist bought off our elected officials).

Brainwash #5 RUN DON'T WALK FROM THESE:

Credit Cards: which can charge you uncontrolled interest (as high as 33%) and assist you in becoming trapped in an endless cycle of "buying". This is the first financial vehicle from your loan shark "US banks"

College loans: School advisors are often encouraged to propose this career quest to everyone...This loan is pure abomination! It will indebt you a lifetime. You may not bankrupt on it. It follows you with high rates of interest for your entire lifetime! ( because a high school education has been devalued, many jobs that formally required a H.S. diploma now require 4 years of college. A 4 year degree( many jack of all trade, master of none degrees) also next to no value and now you need a Masters or Ph.D.( more school loans) Which still are not worth what they proport to be. When you are so indebted by being in the 33% tax bracket and OWE your life to a school loan and the expensive SUV you don't own and live in the designer house( you don't own)at etc and etc and etc. You've got it! THE AMERICAN DREAM! AAAUGH!

This equals a life in which you are a slave to a job you do not likeand work around people who are self obssessed bullies. As we know from the current financial mess, ( Trillion dollar US Debt) and American's personal debt mess, this makes for a unhappy society with ruthless people everywhere.

We were all blind about the North American Trade agreement which transported American jobs to populations who work for slave wages in the same jobs that were American jobs. American businesses have no honor integrity or morality. Their God is $ the dollar. Profit at all cost at the expense of human life. Gone are the companies you could have a lifetime of allegiance.

Have you noticed how after 5 years on a job its time to move to the next job...

Pam re evaluate what is important to you. Your life and your soul should be first! NOT A HOUSE,CAR OR OVER PRICED EDUCATION THAT REAPS LITTLE BENEFIT! Love God, yourself and your loved one's. Run after "your true dreamlife" Not the one that surrounds you...You are in my prayers.

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JRP
JRP

Too many employers are ONLY willing to hire someone who *already* has so many years experience in the field they are hiring.
1. Q: How does one get said required years of experience?
1. A: Buy being *allowed* to get a job in said field to begin with. *No one* automatically comes with said required years of experience.
Too many employers are totally unwilling to teach anyone on-the-job so that the employee can *acquire* said required years of experience.
What happened to apprenticeship?

No, don't say get college degrees in said fields.
That requires money, of which said unemployed person does not have in order to pay for said schooling.
2. Q: How does one get said money for for this schooling?
2. A: By *having* a job in the first place. Or, by getting out a huge loan that one will stay in debt over their heads for and still unable to get a job in said fields in order to pay off that loan, *because*. . . "Too many employers are ONLY willing to hire someone who *already* has so many years experience in the field they are hiring. "

The job market needs a total rewrite. It's all just one big 'catch-22'.

Estela Fajardo RN
Estela Fajardo RN

I agree with you a 100 %. This is reality in Nursing 2010 and......

Estela Fajardo RN
Estela Fajardo RN

I'm a RN I think there is not Nursing Shortage . This is an excuse to bring nurses from other countries. There are new graduates RNs in our country who CAN'T find a job and many hospitals are closing units to maintain the personnel while other nurses are trying to move to other areas with less stress. If I were to start a new career I will focus in Occupational Therapy or physical Therapyst . AND what about fitness. The money is in this field,. Is looks like who made this list don't know much about the jobs we really need.

Carolyn
Carolyn

I appericate your feedback I do qualify for loans I get the pell and stafford as well I do my college online and most jobs of lower levels will not hire becuase they know first opportunity comes I will jump on it. I think any college student would. doing medial work is great for supporting your self while in college but most employment will not touch you if your going for a higher degree or technical degree. The reason I like working with younger people when I had job with younger people they are more accepting even when your education choice is not normal choice for a middle age woman who is a grandmother.

Shaun
Shaun

If you are working two jobs and are in school that can be difficult. Have you tried applying for grants? Depending on your situation there are some grants made exactly for people in your position. Also could you apply for work-study? Or apply for stipends in your school? These options were all meant to set the student at ease (a little) while they are trying to get an education. It wouldn't be much of a benefit to go to school and not earn good grades because of a hectic schedule. Right? Hope this helps and good luck!

Carolyn J Venable
Carolyn J Venable

I do not like desk jobs I am good at mathematical and science and technology and the medical professional depends highly on technology to make the hospital network infrastructure example of COW on a thin client network that provides support to the nurses to perform their job.

My hole point to many people are rushing to the medical field and some nurses can not even hit small veins with a needle and has to go fetch the RN to complete the task. Far as overseas recruitment is that due to many that do not get accepted into the nursing program who are American citizens?

Mark
Mark

Thats because nursing sucks and nobody wants to do it. People overseas are willing to accept unsafe and poor work conditions thus...we recruit them heavily to be RNs. Don't go into nursing...get a desk job.

Carolyn J Venable
Carolyn J Venable

You are correct on your statement.Myself I am not crazy about medical profession in other words not my calling but for those that is your calling that is the people I want to see in the industry not people who are their for the money only.

I went back to college to update my skills in the IT/Networking and working on my degree and I'm scared that there will be nothing out there so I will re-enroll and finish my criminal justice degree(BS).

Medical- people always get sick and die and births
Criminal Justice- Crime is going up job security!

Carolyn J Venable
Carolyn J Venable

Some of these jobs are medial jobs and they are great for support while getting a degree. But Aide work is low paying work and retail as well. Jobs are still being outsourced over seas and in the united states more companies are hiring illegal aliens and companies will sponsor visa in return for cheap labor.

College education I think still is vital to our economy. We need to have more college educated people in science and technology towards green technologies.

Also what is the deal with age discrimination for people over 40? People who are not on welfare or does not qualify sometimes passed over in the hiring process due to we are not a tax credit for the company.

People who writes these articles needs to get in the real world not everybody wants to wipe hinney for a living or be a sales associate they need a reality check!

What do everybody think Did I hit some issues here?

geo ra
geo ra

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brenda barnhart
brenda barnhart

you are leaving out the most important job of all time of your list here. without this job we wouldn't even have most of the electricity we have "THE COAL MINER" this is the biggest job in the country if you ask me i think your wrong.

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Karla
Karla

We are not having the shortage in nursing as they've been saying. They are trying to flood the market so to drive the wages down further. The wages are already lower than they should be.

First, we need to stop allowing nurses to come in from other countries. These nurses work for less wages. With this happening no one in this country will want to go into health care. Why be a nurse when you can make more as an accountant and have less stress and a better lifestyle? You may love caring for others but not at the risk of abusing yourself.
What does this say mentally about nurses?

Nursing is high risk for injury, and exhausting work which impacts your family and overall lifestyle. When you get a job you become a slave to the system. A lot of nurses are overweight due to stress and not enough time off to compensate. Meals and breaks are missed or rushed because of improper staffing so they can pay the CEO, CFO, and doctors who claim to not make enough. However, if patient census is down, you will be called off, and lose the pay. Yet, you're expected to be on-call sitting by the phone in case they need you.

In addition, they keep most nurses prn so they don't have to pay health care benefits. If you're sick it's difficult getting a day off and you're expected to come to work caring for people while you're sick. There is less empathy amongst co-workers 'cause there is always someone worse off than you.

How can you work in health care and not be taken care of? No benefits, no time for rest & relaxation. Outcome: overworked, stressed, overweight, and unhealthy.

RJ
RJ

BB,

Could you please let me know how to land a job after passing CCNA and where are the jobs. I passed CCNA couple of weeks back and looking for Network Engineer job.

Thank you so much

RJ

kraft
kraft

That is depressing. I have a BA in Journalism and a Masters in Management. I am taking courses in accounting now. I hear it is in demand. What part of the country do you live in?

Eric
Eric

25 yr old male. Working, but not a career. Holy Shite. Could it get any more depressing. Thank god (well, if there was one) I only have myself to worry about, and frankly, myself to blame.

Debbie
Debbie

I've worked at an automotive supplier for 25 years and lost my job exactly one year ago. I've been looking for work ever since. THe only thing I can find is for almost half of what I was making... so much for getting my Bachelor's degree. Recently, I studied and got by Life and Health insurance license to try something completely different and for commission only. This is the scariest thing I have ever done but I gotta make some money somehow. I live in Michigan where there is absolutely NO jobs available and can't sell my house to even move. Our housing market has plummeted so low and we have had over 25 homes foreclosed on in my subdivision. THe problem is that I'm just stuck in the house and stuck in Michigan. .. Really starting to get old --- where are all the jobs???

Jackson
Jackson

I'm 45 years old. I spent 2 - 1/2 years in college, alot of time, hard work and money training for various jobs in the healthcare fields. (1) Medical Record Transcriptions, (2) Medical Billing & Coding, (3) Health Unit Coordinator, (4) Medical Assistant and (5) Phlebotomy. I figured that if I didn't have luck in one field, I could always fall back on another. I finished school with a 4.0 GPA. That GPA didn't come easy, either. But, I am LUCKY enough to have a husband and daughter, who after their own jobs, picked up my share of the housework, so that after I got out of school or work myself, I was able to spend that extra time studying, because we figured it was going to benefit our future as a family. Well, it's been over a year now, and I've yet to find a job or even come close. It's very discouraging. Keeping in touch with some of my former class mates, I've been told that out of over 150+ people, only 4 of us have been able to find jobs. Everyone is experiencing the same thing I am, which is companies all want at least 3 years experience or they're not hiring at all.

Just by chance, my husband met someone who worked for years doing Billing/Coding, but had been laid off. He told my husband that a tremendous amount of companies are outsoursing so much of the transcripts, and billing/coding jobs to other countries who will do the work for lower wages, and that the lucky ones who have been able to retain their jobs, after seeing half of their co-workers being laid off are holding onto their jobs like glue out of fear that things will get worse. He advised my husband that billing/coding was not the job to be going after right now.

Recently, I was talking to a Human Resources Director who said she has contact with medical facilities all over the country, and she was telling me that in the last 2 years or so, the healthcare fields that have always been so open, like RN's, LPN's, CNA's radiology tech's, respiratory tech's, phlebotomy, paramedics, medical assistants, billing/coding, etc, are slowly becoming over-saturated and she didn't understand why the colleges are continuing to "churn out" (her words) more and more healthcare workers who will have difficulty finding jobs. Between over-saturation and people being afraid to go for other jobs or retire, because of the economy, it's starting to make things harder. She said that for every one job opening, there was probably 100 people trying to get that job. She wondered that when the healthcare fields start to open up again, if companies will want to hire laid off people that have real-time experience, or someone fresh out of school as opposed to others like myself who have a college education that was no longer 'fresh' plus no real-time experience. She further told me that she was afraid that unless you spend 6 years or more in college becoming uber specialized... good luck! She said she probably shouldn't have been so blunt with me, but I appriated the honesty. Unfortunately, my family has already stretched ourselves enough financialy, and I don't have the money for another 6 years of education.

My mother has 40 years of nursing experience. There has never been a time, from when I was a little girl till the present, that she hasn't continued and furthered her medical education, 6 months ago she moved to another state to be closer to her sister. When I was telling all the troubles I was having, she confided to me that for the first time ever in her medical career, she had difficulty finding work after she moved, even with the excellent references her boss gave her, and the only reason she took the nursing job she has now (working in a Pediatric Unit, even though she can't stand kids) is that it was the ONLY job she could find, and she'd not in a low population area.

I've been at the same job for20 years working as a customer service repersentative. To those paying attention, that would be #3 on the list of hot jobs for the future!! It used to a great job. Used to be! Now it's become a dead end. Over the last 4 years, the national company I work for has closed down or minimized various departments around the country. We've gone from 140+ full time workers in my department, who worked either a day or night shift, to only 38 workers who have been reduced to being only night time/part time workers, and recently, even shorter hours and shorter work weeks if we want to keep our jobs. Anymore, we never know when the entire department is going to be sent home early because work is slow. That means that benifits are gone, vacation days gone, bonuses, gone. dignity and self worth... gone. I've been out looking for another job. Anything. There's nothing to be had. But, I guess I'm still luckier than most, as I've been able to hold onto my job, (sort of) my sanity, (kind of) my health and my house... for the time being.

I'm so confused.
Never in the past have I feared the future, until now.

Alyssa
Alyssa

I see several people that talk about going back to school. I am graduating with my degree this May, I do believe in education, but I also believe there is a time for it. I work in student loans, and I see a lot of people who are 65+ that are "in school" so they don't have to pay on the loans. When/if these people ever finish their degree, they will be hardpressed to find an employer willing to hire someone who should be in retirement. They then can't pay on their debts, and the burden to pay them off will fall to the taxpayers. Us. And, unfortunately, I'm not just talking about $10k loans, many of these people owe $100k, and more.

So, you're welcome for paying into your social security, my generation will never see that. And you're welcome for the free education, hope you had a good time in college.

john
john

To enlighten Max about American nurses. Go to the board of nursing website in any states and look for displenary or suspension. Compare how many new nursing licenses were issues and how many nursing licenses were revoke in that states. Four top of crimes committed by nurses are drugs, stealing, negligence, and assault. Some states will only report the nurse revoke license number, but state like California will report the charges, name, license, and court records on the website. However, the State of California will not post any displenary action against MD or dentist on there website.

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