On Sep 26, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>>> Doug, I think you need to get out of New York and talk to some
>>> actual
>>> working people around the U.S.
>>
>> This line drives me crazy. There are plenty of working people right
>> here in NYC.
>
> The New York metro area has 22 million people and the Los Angeles
> metro area has 13 million (17 if you include the Inland Empire).
Ok, here's a comparison of the broad occupational makeup of the U.S., New York City, and the Kansas City metro area. "Service" is mostly nonelite service jobs, like messengers and orderlies.
US NYC KC managerial/professional 34.0% 36.5% 36.0% service 16.5% 22.0% 14.7% sales/office 25.9% 25.2% 27.7% farming/fishing/forestry 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% construction/extraction/
maintenance/repair 10.0% 7.1% 9.4% production/transportation/
material moving 13.0% 9.2% 12.0%
So, NYC isn't all that different from the U.S. or KC.
Doug