Jobs being created

[Liza Featherstone]

yeah, sorry to have been misleading. what I forgot to note in my answer is
that lots of pretty good jobs are counted as "service" -- nursing, teaching,
etc and there's a lot of growth in those areas.

Liza, who should probably confine herself to comments on sex and TV!
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>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Jobs being created
>Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999, 5:39 PM
>


>Marta Russell wrote:
>>Would you say this statement is correct:
>>Most of the jobs being created in the U.S. economy are low-pay service
>>sector jobs.
>>?????????????????
>
>No, I don't think that's true. Lots of new jobs are, but not all. I think
>there's a bifurcation in the market, with good/high paying and bad/low
>paying jobs being created in bigger numbers than decent/ok paying ones. The
>real average wage - led by the private service sector, by the way -
>couldn't be rising if it were just mainly low-pay jobs.
>
>Doug