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This spring there seems to have been an explosion of positive employment news that’s left skeptics wondering, “Is this news too good to be true?” and job seekers crying foul.

While we are not out of the woods yet, President Barack Obama was cautiously optimistic in a recent radio address. “Even as we have come a long way, we still have a ways to go,” Obama said.  “No matter what the economic statistics say, I won’t be satisfied until folks who need work can find good jobs.  After a recession that stole 8 million jobs, this is going take some time.”

Considering some of the most recent indicators that the economy and employment are improving, one can’t help but be hopeful:

  • For the third consecutive quarter, more employers are projecting they will increase head count in the next three months while fewer employers are expecting staff cuts, according to CareerBuilder’s Q2 2010 Job Forecast. Twenty-three percent of employers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in the second quarter while 8 percent plan to downsize staffs. Looking at actual hiring for the second quarter in 2009, 18 percent of employers reported they had hired full-time, permanent staff while 17 percent reported they had decreased staff.
  • In its April 2010 Industry Survey, the National Association of Business Economics reported increased job creation for the first time in two years. The share of respondents expecting their firms to add employees over the coming six months rose to 37 percent, from 29 percent in January’s survey. The percentage of firms cutting jobs moved lower, to 13 percent in April from 28 percent in January. “After more than two years of job losses, job creation increased in the first quarter of 2010, suggesting a better outlook for hiring over the next six months,” said William Strauss of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  • In April, Moody’s Economy.com reported that, “based on data through February, 205 metro areas nationwide appear to be in recovery, 21 more than in January. By population size, the largest metro areas to move into recovery (January-February) were Santa Ana, Calif., Nassau, N.Y., and San Jose, Calif. Smaller metro areas are more likely to be in recovery at this point than larger ones; although more than half of all U.S. metro areas appear to be recovering, they represent only 41 percent of total metropolitan gross domestic product.”
Jobs of the future
This map from DismalScientist.com shows states that are moderating and recovering from the recession.

Unfortunately, it’s not expected to be smooth sailing when we come out on the other side of the recession. As difficult as it may be to believe given today’s still shaky employment situation, economists are projecting a labor shortage  soon.

“By 2018, with no change in current labor force participation rates or immigration rates and an expected return to healthy economic growth, we will have more jobs than people to fill them,” wrote Barry Bluestone, dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, and Mark Melnik, deputy director for research at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, in their report “After the Recovery: Help Needed.”

The report, which was sponsored by MetLife Foundation and Civic Ventures, a think tank on baby boomers, work and social purpose, predicts that within the next eight years there could be at least 5 million job vacancies in the United States, nearly half of them (2.4 million) in social sector jobs in education, health care, government and nonprofit organizations.

The report identified 15 jobs expected to provide the largest number of potential new career opportunities in the coming decade.

1. Business operations specialists
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 1.6 million*
Current U.S. salary: $44,522**

2. Child-care workers
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 532,1000
Current U.S. salary: $24,354

3. Clergy
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 217,700
Current U.S. salary: $51,746

4. General and operations managers
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 502,200
Current U.S. salary: $94,706

5. Home health aides
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 552,700
Current U.S. salary: $27,345

6. Licensed practical and vocational nurses
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 391,300
Current U.S. salary: $44,738 for LPNs; $39,272 for vocational nurses

7. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 4,223,000
Current U.S. salary: $30,494 for nursing aides; $33,822 for orderlies; $24,695 for attendants

8. Medical assistants
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 217,800
Current U.S. salary: $35,986

9. Medical and health service managers
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 99,400
Current U.S. salary: $39,956

10.  Personal and home care aides
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 477,800
Current U.S. salary: $27,345

11.  Receptionists and information clerks
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 480,200
Current U.S. salary: $30,887

12.  Registered nurses
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 1.04 million
Current U.S. salary: $61,423

13.  Social and human service assistants
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 153,900
Current U.S. salary: $34,324

14.  Teachers
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs:  2.68 million
Current U.S. salary: $54,273 for all; $35,810 for elementary; $47,603 for high school; $68,456 for  post-secondary

15.  Teacher assistants
Total job openings due to growth and replacement needs: 412,700
Current U.S. salary: $24,429

*Total needs over the entire 2008-18 period according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_102.htm)

**Average annual salary according to www.CBsalary.com

539 comments
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firemire

"IT'S TO YOUR DISADVANTAGE THAT YOU HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY AS A US CITIZEN TO STUDY MEDICINE ABROAD" said one hospital program director, when I applied for the residency program. 25% of doctors accepted to US hospital residency programs are not US citizens! "We need foreign PhD s"- says Romney. Bottom line: "we need cheap foreign labor" by either exporting manufacturing or importing labor -that's unlikely to change.

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Richard Rael

now im only twenty years old and i can tell that we to get more middle class jobs, its sad that in all reality theres the poor and the rich in american, it has turned into a communist country. why dont we just completely legalize maryjuana and tax it like colorado. they made 21 million just off taxing this last year mutiply that by every state in america and thats a lot of damn money to help us get back on our feet as a country. screw our selfish communist for making this mess

D. Kiley
D. Kiley

Someone should develop a list of manufacturers in this state that fired their long term moderately paid employees and replaced with workers who will take five or six dollars an hour less than I was making... no wonder employees go postal!

cheryl
cheryl

i agree with the comment made about taking a layoff to pay a temporary 5 dollars less than what i was making what a shame. the comment was this " Someone should develop a list of manufacturers in this state that fired their long term moderately paid employees and replaced with workers who will take five or six dollars an hour less than I was making… no wonder employees go postal!"

tt i was making. what a shame

Allen R
Allen R

Ken Eteinne,
You are an absolute uninformed bafoon. Your Obama has done everything in his power to destroy this economy and hurt the US. His marxist plays are working. It's people like you who had good intentions but did not do any homework and continue to allow yourselves to remain confused. You are following the social class warfare propaganda of the leftists. People of wealth are wealthy from hard work, NOT handouts. They are the ones paying an unfair proportion of taxes. If you are not paying around $5500 per individual, then you are not paying your part of the cost of doing business in America. That is the cost to maintain us. And that figure is from the Bush days; it's probably double that now. Bush increased our national defecit about 4 trillion dollars which was outragious. obama has increased our debt an additional 3.8 trillion dollars...in less than 2yrs!! That is at the crux of our problem with this economy. Too much spending. I encourage you to read Wayne Allen Roots blog on Roots4america dotcom. He was a Liberterian candidate who went to school with Obama at Columbia with a key insight and VERY telling agenda.

rachael
rachael

Williston North Dakota

Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam

There are more government jobs now than manufacturing and construction combined!! The government jobs pay 25%+ more than the private sector and have pensions and cadillac health care! The unions have bought favortism from politicans and it's ruined this country!!
I'm moving to another country as are most wealthy folks who pay nearly all the taxes and you guys can fight over who'll get the last of the government money! 25% work for government, 25% retired from government and 25% living off government!! I call that one big fat conflict of interest when these folks vote for more government!! Nice goin-socialism has never worked & will never work!! You have to reward desired behavior and punish undesireable and the US is doing just the opposite!! Good luck with your change and your marxist progressives in congress and leader!! Note: Bush balanced the budget untill the war and the bank bailout which we all voted for!! Bush tax cuts expire this year-the wealthy will leave, taxes will sky rocket and social ills will spike through the roof!!

Ramblingman
Ramblingman

Dear Mechanical Engineer:
I am a mechanical Engineer also. What happened to you is what happened to me. We got old and companies no longer want to hire older workers due to company medical insurance costs. You can always start your own company.

John TX
John TX

What planet is this statement - "This spring there seems to have been an explosion of positive employment news that’s left skeptics wondering, “Is this news too good to be true?” - from?

SMK
SMK

She lives in California and has been teaching for 20+ years is why she makes 83K. Why do you think Calif is in such dire financial straits? I think teachers should be paid around 50k , they have summers off for Gods sake and every holiday sometimes weeks off during the year. but we need to pay them decently to get good ones.

Bob
Bob

How many of you readers see this as a wake-up call? Today we are constantly told that we live in a "global" economy. That means imports and exports. Where in this list of 15 jobs do we manufacturer exportable products? Our jobs in manufacturing have all gone overseas, and this article is living proof. Our balance of trade has been negative for years and is only getting worse. So what happens? As we create more healthcare related and teaching jobs, we will depend more on imported products but with nothing to export from the US. So where do you think the wealth is going? Hint: you won't find it in America. But stupid people will dog along, taking it all in, buying foreign cars, foreign clothes, foreign foods, foreign anything while struggling to find a $10 service job. Wake up, America!

Morgan
Morgan

This does not seem true--at least not in my area. Teaching jobs are extreamly hard to find, since they keep cutting education spending. =(

Allie
Allie

Not sure about all the other companies out there, but i work in an office for a manufacturing company and we are producing and selling more products than ever before... We are hiring many people now and business is booming.

Quovandxra
Quovandxra

Very sensible comment. I agree with you. It is the corporations, not the President calling the shots. We the people have to come up with our own solution because things will get worse, not better.

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I live in Morgantown, WV and moved here fifteen years ago, when I began living at, Marjorie Gardens, Dorsey Lane, Morgantown, WV 26505. I very frustrated with having to live in West Virginia, following my birth in July 1963. I grew up in Fairmont, WV not being able to work because of a unknown disability, when I moved out on my own in 1983. Then I worked full time five weekdays on Governor Rockefellers job program as a orderly at a nursing home type hospital in Fairmont. By August 1983, I had no job until May 1991 as a county janitor of Marion County, which was only two weekday mornings of about two hours. I moved too Morgantown, WV July 1994 for better job/career daily opportunity, and haven't gotten anywhere, because of the economy, and moreso the WV public official beleif and rediculous practice of god & jesus christ.

KColumbo
KColumbo

Jes nails it above on the immigration issue - that anyone in our government would label us racist because we wish to protect jobs for AMERICANS who depend on AMERICAN jobs to support themselves and their families is a GIANT CROCK of political stew, spoiled and stinking. WHat is up with that racism accusation anyway - seems to me ithat those in our government who wish to enable rampant and uncontrolled immigration are striving to simply enable mass cheap non-union labor as a tax base (hey, a huge wave of baby boomers are soon to drop out of the tax base, right???!!!). The rich will continue tol benefit in escalating ways - the ever growing divide between rich and poor in this country and the ultimate extinction of the middle class. Puke....this country is hellbound and anyone who cannot see that is blind. Get out while the gettin's good!!!! I mean, get out and make room for the newest third world country, America!! However, it may be too late for the millions of long term unemployed who cannot even afford to leave the country now....America is becoming one big leper colony. Thanks alot all of you self serving empty suits in Washington.

Jean
Jean

The solution seems simple to me. Impose a HUGE tariff (probably a percentage of sales prices just to make it easer) on anything (product or service) purchased in this country that is not made in this country. Use the money to pay down the deficit and ONLY for that purpose. Watch how quickly the deficit will go down and the dollar will regain it's international power. Watch how consumers will begin to look for products manufactured in the U.S. Then watch how quickly the companies who have outsorced the positions will be opening new plants in the U.S. because the extra dollars they have to pay for health insurance will be minimal compared to the loss they will take if their products aren't manufactured here. Then, when the deficit is gone (should be quick by my calculations), pour the excess dollars into real health care reform and subsidizing health care/insurance costs of companies who have produced products in the U.S. for the last say 25 years. Let's turn the idea of supply and demand in our favor. Let's put these greedy companies on their ears!

south-girl
south-girl

I don't believe that a family can survive on $25,000 dollars, but I do take offense to the South-bashing. The uneducated and ignorant are not region-specific. They spread out, and infiltrate.

claudia
claudia

I have to agree. Everyone wants everything now now now.The Banks and corporate monguls are well are of this and take full advantage of it. The generation is controlled by impluse and quick gratification. That is why they control us. In their eyes we are just consumers that keep them in control. We should really reevaluate our spending and priorites. We should research the products we consume and purchase..what is wrong with shopping at costco or your local market...I bet people buying the name brand products are unaware of the genetically modified crops they consume. This is off the subject but I thought it was important to mention. Dont trust the corporate companies or our government completely... some are trying to change it and some have alterior motives(mostly racist views). Everyone should just have a few back up plans because life has ups and downs, along with twist and turns. Save for rainy days and stop being so materialistic is one way. stop complaining and start being part of the solution and really paying attention to what our politicians are doing and what their beliefs are. Be understanding as well Change takes time...our problems didnt happen over night, it was process. There are alot of people that have personal interest or expecting certain promises to be fullfilled by the politician they sponsored...so that politician is being pulled in 20 directions and possibly their own intentions....Thats my opinion thanks for reading

Rockin'teacher
Rockin'teacher

I'm making roughly 8 dollars per hour to be a TA in Arkansas while minimum wage goes up every year and each year I get no increases because of cuts. Every year we are told our jobs may or may or may not be there. Kids curse us out, hit us, kick us and throw things at our heads. I love teaching and feel that I am doing something important most days. Other days I think I must be crazy! Seeing those few children who strive is not the greatest reward. My main satisfaction comes from seeing those kickers and biters years later after they have learned how to behave! Everybody's got to start somewhere. I know if they start out from my teaching, then they will know patience and caring. How could someone like me walk away because of money? They have us over a barrell of our own design. Nurses and caregivers as wll.

Drew
Drew

In 2008, I went to school to pursue a degree in Paralegal because at the time it was supposedly one of the fastest growing fields for the "next decade." It's 2010 and I don't see it on the list, so it just goes to show that you shouldn't read too much into these types of lists.

DIANE
DIANE

I'm an insurance agent for ohio. It looks like everyone makes more than me. How sad. I guess that is what happens when you age. Your salary goes backwards. Prior to my current job at another insurance agecy, I made $15k more than I do now. I think, I qualify for poverty level.

Brendan
Brendan

Allow me to introduce a thought that hasn't been commented on yet. Look at the recent past and how many people have lost their homes whatever the circumstances, as I did. Most companies perform background checks. Taking a massive hit to personal credit ratings prevents good, hardworking people from landing a job. When this happens to preferred companies, banks, etc., they automatically get to hit the reset button and are back on their feet again with the same salaries, perks and bonuses. This doesn't happen to the rest of us. I would like to ask those who make these decisions: Why???

I, personally cannot take a position for less than $120k a year. A few examples as to why this much money. I have a 10 y/o child with an incurable, fatal disease of which has historically been my biggest write off come tax time. Biggest write off thanks to our insurance industry. So what are my options with a very poor credit score (foreclosure), fear of background checks, daughter who needs expensive medications to sustain her life of which maybe 20% use to be covered by insurance?

Options: cut down on all expenses, take a lower paying job where the employer doesn't look at financial histories, stop buying her medications and allow her life to diminish, get hospitalized and pass the bill to those who are working via taxes paid to the State and Fed, or I could simply start sending all bills to my elected officials each month or those seeking election. They have the money and they want my vote. My vote comes with a cost each and every month because my debtors won't wait and I cannot be a productive member of society as much as I want and need to be.

Articles like this simply eat my shorts as does the media/government hype. Could this be our governments way towards social genocide in America? Insanity is in our faces every single moment of every single day. We do need to wakeup and take notice.

A quick snapshot of recent events, the President stated not only would he kick Tony Hayward's arse but would fire him. Why is the Secretary of the Interior still working, can't point fingers at past administrations. His watch should equal his arse. Chrysler received bailouts and now 600k vehicles are being recalled. Will the CEO be fired or get more money to remedy the issues/. The congressional hearings for Goldman Sachs and others. They're still employed. And now I see two CEO's running for office in California. You've got to be kidding me.

Do you see the insanity yet? Even though these people have ruined our once great nation they would like to make us believe they care. They care only during elections and they want you to believe that they care while ruining our chances to be employed with fair wages. Case in point, Senator Benett from my State of Colorado had an ongoing TV add stating he wanted to freeze congressional pay until healthcare, jobs bill and more were passed. I really didn't think that my fellow Coloradan's were that ignorant but apparently we are. I wonder if he has more than $200 in his bank account, that's about what is in mine.

As for the comments to start your own businesses so as not to rely on anyone else; I would absolutely love to, but I wasn't given a reset button.

Good luck out there, help one another out and be very careful who you vote for no matter how angry and desperate you may be.

areo
areo

Fast food or retail sales.

miami777
miami777

I am an LPN and work for an extended care facility. We used to have a treatment nurse, a ward clerk and an admissions nurse. Now thet pulled all three and we have do all the work. There isnt time and you cant work over time nor can you work off the clcocl. Its a no win situation. Its all about the money. I do not recommend nursing to anyone. The stress gave me esohogeal cancer. Long hours, stressful work, low pay and that is the thanks we get.

Lydia Escobar
Lydia Escobar

Ms, Kate Lorenz:
You stated in your article that teachers positions are available due to "growth and replacement". Indeed, this profession has the lowest retention by teachers due to burn out. The reason: many people entered the profession without qualifications as out of fields. Unfortunately, many "real" teachers, by means with bachelors and master even doctorate degree in Education are being cut off due to shortage or budget cuts. That is my case, I don't have a job in the field! with two doctoral degrees in education and 20 years of experience, I have a second degree job in a charter school, handling three positions for less than 40k. School districts are not willing to pay for my knowledge instead they reclute new graduates or out of field teachers which only earn the minimum salary of 22k. This is all about budget, simple administration...

Cordially,
Dr. Lydia escobar

Anthony
Anthony

I can't agree with you more because if you live on Long Island, NY you know how unlikely no matter how qualified you are that you will even have the slightest chance of landing a teaching job. The public schools receive over ten thousand applications a month from qualified applicants and the average district only hires two to four teachers a year. These college graduates are left to fill jobs such as teacher assistants and substitute teachers that pay ten to twelve dollars an hour. Considering the average one bedroom apartment is about 1,500 dollars a month that doesn't seem a realistic job choice.

franz wagener
franz wagener

Hi,
Are you area bound ?
If not, cast your net a little wider ...
Moving home is daunting, but can be rewarding.
Over here in South Africa the picture is much the same...
Living in a small town is only difficult for the first ten years or so...

CBKD
CBKD

The concept of monies as we currently see it, a system of debt into more debt until the countries of the world borrow themselves into a sink hole is no longer sustainable on earth and for mankind to survive you will all have to sacrifice to understand the value of the world you live in.

We are no longer a manufacturing country, the sooner we face this the faster we can move on, let’s face it! Our leaders are bent on war as a sole means of income and innovation, WHICH is not what our constitution stands for and worse yet people actually believe there is a real reason for us to be outside our boundaries. Do we have control over anything, really??

The service industry is as much of an innovative gateway as any "industry" and if we could stop our full focus on the conquest for money "BP" for just one second we might actually have a moment to sit back and look at ourselves, the health of our nation, our structure. PULL THE BLINDERS OFF America! We have fallen; we have lost sight of the real world in conquest for false illusions and worse yet our brother’s fall in the name of a concept as imaginary as Dora the Explorer. Wake up America and open your eyes to the reality of where you live.

Education needs reformation and we have a direction. Let us lead by example and show the world that America does not need oil to survive before we lose it all. Cap immigration by helping those countries build their countries with services that we create through education. Let us turn NASA's research over the last 30 years to the public, create jobs in America to fiz our railway system - IE Electric! Our Dams need a new design IE mobile dams and we could use a swift lesson in renewable technologies to the full benefit that it would bring our nation and the wealth of jobs it would create over the oil industry. PEOPLE FEAR CHANGE, so let us propose it in a way they can undertand!

Samuel Elder
Samuel Elder

I've been a Democrat all my voting life, but I will support any political party that can assure the people of the U.S. that they will do everything in their power to bring back manufacturing and technology jobs. If you think American people won't work manufacturing jobs for $14.00 an hour, put them out there and see. Get rid of the 492,000 H1B visas in this country and you create that amount of jobs for US citizens. It is so disgraceful to publich a list of sorry jobs such as those listed above. Washington needs to get their heads out of their sorry behinds and find out what's really going on. They are the ones that yell the loudest and longest about the future of their grandchildren, well...

Electronic Tech
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Proper Education is the starting point for our young people to be trained. When I was in school 40 years ago we had Home Economics mainly for the girls where they learned how to cook and keep house. For the boys there was Wood Shop, Metal Shop, Welding, and Auto Mechanics. These were classes that taught SKILLS.

Today these type of classes no longer exist. A young person is lucky if they learn keyboarding skills so they can input something into a computer and be able to text their friends on their cell phones. Never mind their spelling as they all use abbreviations to text their friends.

I am not taking this out on Educators as this is also very much a FAMILY problem with the youth AT HOME.

When I grew up I did not get an allowance so I had to earn money for things that I wanted. I shoveled snow in winter, mowed lawns in summer, delivered handbills 3 or 4 times a summer, and hoe'd sugar beets in early summer AND got jobs at the drive-in theater and at the local radio station.

As a kid most of us made our own clubhouses and treehouses and played in the dirt making small roads and such with our Tonka toys and we built houses with our Lincoln Logs and all kinds of gadgets with our Erector Sets. As we got older our clamp-on skates became the wheels to our basic skateboards and then our skooters made out of 2 by 4 boards. The old lawnmower engines became the motors of our homemade Go Carts with wheels from our old red wagons and old baby carriages.

We were proud as kids with all of our accomplishments and we had fun building them and playing with them.. key words there.. BUILDING THEM.

We also were very lucky to be allowed to watch a couple hours of Cartoons on a saturday morning or to be allowed to go to a movie at the local theater.

As we got older we found old cars for cheap or nothing at all and we spent many many evenings and weekends working on them fixing them up and maybe even painting them so we had something to drive to school once we were old enough and had gotten our drivers license. It also meant we could get better jobs now that we had transportation to get to and from work.

Kids these days are put in front of Sponge Bob Square Pants from infancy as their mothers are way too busy to care for them. No wonder there is such rampant ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) amongst young prople.. to be a teacher these days you have to run around and make noises and talk funny just to keep their attention. Parents buy them small electronic games and MP3 players so they are constantly entertained and if they throw a tantrum they buy them another toy which might keep them entertained for another day or two. Then the parents buy them a Play Station or Wii or maybe even get them a computer. Then they get bigger and they buy them a bicycle or a small dirt bike or 4 wheeler so they can play with all their friends who also have one. And if they break it then Mommy and Daddy will have it fixed or buy them a new one.

Then the big day comes when they are old enough to drive.. do they want the old family car .. OHH NOOOOOOOO they have to have a BRAND NEW $20,000.00 plus car to drive to high school.

DO YOU SEE THE TREND HERE... Our current generation of youth has grown up as Consumers with their parents as Spenders. NO ONE knows any work ethic and they CANNOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES or DO FOR THEMSELVES.

NO ONE HAS TAUGHT OUR YOUNGER GENERATION HOW TO DO ANYTHING. THEY ARE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF SPOILED BRATS !!

We invented Television here in the US.. NOT A SINGLE FLAT SCREEN IS MADE HERE IN THE US TODAY !!

We invented the Microwave Oven here in the US.. NOT A SINGLE MICROWAVE OVEN IS MADE HERE IN THE US TODAY !!

We invented the Automobile and the Production Line here in the US.. WE ASSEMBLE OR PUT TOGETHER MOST OF THE CARS TODAY WHERE MOST OF THE COMPONENTS ARE NOT MADE HERE IN THE US TODAY !!

We invented the Transistor, Integrated Circuit Chip and Computer here in the US.. NEARLY ALL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIPS AND CIRCUIT BOARDS AND COMPUTERS ARE NOT MADE HERE IN THE US TODAY !!

We used to have many large shipbuilding and boat building operations.. AND NOW THEY ARE NEARLY GONE !!

THE CHINESE YEN IS NOW THE DOMINANT CURRENCY IN THE WORLD.

How did it get there?? Well lets just take a look ==>> lets say you work for a living in the teaching or medical profession..and that I work at a fast food establishment.. .. my taxes that I pay and the medical insurance premiums I pay - in turn pay for your salaries.. you are making good money. You decide to buy a new 50 inch flat screen TV and a new Foreign Made car.. most of that money goes overseas.. you also pay taxes and your medical insurance.. and you eat a few lunches at the fast food place where I work. What I make would hardly pay for your monthly cable bill and put gas in your car.. and the money for your gas also goes overseas.

The more money you pay to overseas countries means that much less spent here in the US to keep the money circle going. If you buy fewer lunches from the fast food place where I work - I might eventually get laid off and then I won't be paying taxes or insurance premiums which in turn pay your salaries. Essentially what goes around - comes around, and if we do not have any goods or services which the overseas countries want to buy from us and bring that money back to the US - then they do what they are doing now => THEY LOAN IT BACK TO US and guess what.. with interest they are TAKING MORE MONEY FROM US.

So keep living your lifestyle as you know it now and enjoy it while you can.. because you or your children may soon be working for someone else BECAUSE THEY WILL OWN ALL OF US and they won't have to pay you a good salary.. you won't be able to afford a nice house or apartment or condo.. you won't be able to afford a car to drive.. you won't be able to afford afford electricity, heat, cable or satellite, internet OR your cell phone. We will become a Third World Country slaving away at making the food and luxury items for the soon to be First World Countries.

We will be living according to the GOLDEN RULE. "HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES"

We have been warned many times and yet we continue on this destructive path because we are not correctly educating ourselves and our children and we have grown so accustomed to this life of luxury that we are lackadaisical to what is going on in the 'real world'.

WAKE UP PEOPLE !!! Life as we know it is getting shortened minute by minute and dollar by dollar as our country's deficit continues to climb.

Bettybrown
Bettybrown

No wonder this great country is in the mess she is in right now; because of the hatery and negativity of some people. Where is your faith? All you negative people out there will continued to be jobless unless your change your attitude and behavior. Be thankful that you have a meal everyday and a roof over your heads. There are people out who wish they were in your position and here are complaining of petty stuff. Be thankful you are alive and breathing.

gubernator2
gubernator2

The only way we're going to get jobs back in America is to stop all the corporate welfare that's going on. Corporations get big tax breaks and incentives to open offices and plants overseas, instead of here in the US.......yet the politicians continue to allow it. GE did not pay taxes last year thanks in large part to the present corporate welfare system.

STOP the tax breaks and incentives now and you will see jobs returning to the US where they belong. Contact your senators and congressmen and the president NOW and DEMAND the end of this. OR learn Chinese because they will surely own us if we continue to allow big biz to run the show.

Bob
Bob

No jobs-Why ??? We will never have jobs until we start making things again. I grew up in Rockford, Il. and at one time it was one of the largest manufactiring cities in the world. Why has this changed. Say wanted to start a factury making xxxxyyyyy. I need to hire 100 people, why would I do it in the USA. Before I ever make anything it would cost me $30,000 to $50,000 a month in health cost. It would cost me another 10-15% in salary for medicare, s.s., and any other tax. license to government might want to add on. Why wouldn't I open that factury in a country where I would pay no heath cost, s.s., or other forms of tax??? I know if our country paid for our health out taxes would go up. Well I pay $1350 a month for my wife and I. I would bge happy to pay that in taxes if I knew my health cost are covered. Now I can't even go to the doctor to see if I'm still alive--at $1350 a month that isn't covered. When I go to the doctor and need something done, your right he doesn't ask the government, he calls a $10 hr. secretary at Blue cross, to see if they will cover it or how much of it they will cover. I know--get a different insurance company. Guess what I have two artifical hips and I can never get insurance anywhere else. Want jobs -tax care of health and taxes. I know it's all Obama's fault. He is the one who stole the money from S.S. to pay for the Vietnam war, which really made our country safer. P.S. I spent 13 monts in Vietnam as a marine , who signed up, not drafted, to save to world (Ha Ha).

bj
bj

Yes...lets stop educating the kids. Is that what you want? What do you think teachers should get paid? Most new teachers would have to have their kids on free or reduced lunches because of their salaries. They do more than 8 hours a day and the do not get the whole summer off. They get on average 6 weeks off and are usually doing some planning in that time. My brother who works for an airline( not a pilot) gets more vacation time plus three times the wages. Lets protest that and sports players millions that You pay for in taxes too. No you would rather leave our kids uneducated. You are a moron!

GE
GE

Not to take anything away from teachers, but there appears to be a conceptual misunderstanding about the listed salaries. First of all, the listed salaries appear to be averages. Of course, there are other factors that impact the pay, such as years of service, levels of credits or steps accomplished, degree held, etc. And, don't forget to annualized the salary, if you are going to compare against other professions, since the pay represents about 9 months of the year.

Bob
Bob

To Royce. Try working in Az. as a teacher. If you can get a job you might make $35K a year with 6 years experience and a M.A. $2500 in taxes(ha Ha) try living in Chicago area or Wis. and see how much you pay in taxes.

D
D

Idaho is cutting teacher's salary 14% with five to ten days less of school for the students. When I relocated late last year...started subbing & was finally able to work at least three days a week for no benefits. With school out now...am working about 20 hours a week on the loading dock of a major department store to pay my rent & bills. Thank God for my church helping me out with my rent earlier this year & the part-time job on the dock...along with being smart enough to build a motorized bicycle (no tags/license/insurance & 100-150 MPH). Am very thankful & smart I didn't go back to college for the MA Ed...since there are so many teachers out of work with no prospects for many years to come. Education...is certainly the way to go for the future...if you're an administrator making $100K a year. This is the ONLY growth part of the industry.

Bob
Bob

T Mit Mike 65. When you run out of valid arguements people resort to calling other names.

chucker
chucker

Well, it's good to see (from this posting) that people are starting to see what is going on in this country. Matt on 5/11 asked where all the IT jobs are. He said "our entire economy revolves around Technology/Manufacturing jobs" Unfortunately, all of the CEO's and Politicians have sold off those jobs to Asian countries. The rest of the jobs are given to illegas. Wether it's outsourcing, or Insourcing (H1B visas undercutting the pay of U.S. citizens), those jobs are long gone. And you can't really blame it all on Obama. This happens under both Democrats and Republicans. A lot of it happened under the Bush admin. The result is lower wages, and less benefits for Americans. Until U.S. citizens start to get angry, this will continue. I say if the CEO's want to outsource jobs to 3rd world countries, that use slave labor, they need to go live in those countries as well. The politicans and CEO's that are doing this need to be run out of the U.S. naked. Get mad everybody!

Jennifer
Jennifer

There isn't a shortage of nurses! All RN new grads will learn this soon. LVN new grads already figured that out! The economy waits for no one. Better transition into another field soon! Good luck!
-2008 LVN grad

sgtjoebear
sgtjoebear

Why is this worthless article up again?

Kevin
Kevin

This is such complete BULLSHIT that MSN put out. The whole Economy is completely F'ed up and NOT getting better!

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