High employment rates gloss over a ‘much more complicated story’ of stagnant wages and vanishing mid-level jobs
January marked the 100th consecutive month of job creation in the United States – a record breaking streak of job creation that has left employers scrambling to find workers and dragged the long-term unemployed back into the market.
Yet even now, 20m jobs later , there are some parts of the US economy that have yet to reflect the positive image projected by the continuous job growth and low unemployment rate.
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Employers think they should be able to get whoever they want at those lower wages
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