[lbo-talk] Jobless future?

[Chris Maisano]

I know that Stanley Aronowitz has been something of a personal bête noire of Doug's for some time now, particularly in reference to his stuff on the "jobless future." But doesn't the data that's starting to emerge from the recession seem to point that the structural underpinning of the US economy is actually starting to trend in the direction that Stanley has forecast for years? Yesterday's long article on unemployment in the NYT seems to provide some evidence for such a trend: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/business/economy/21unemployed.html?em