Why Everyone’s So Mad: Economic Depression Continues For ‘Poorly Educated’

Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- poorly.educated.donald.trump.great.recession.obama.stem_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group

 

Post Great Recession life for those who did not go to college has been an exercise in frustration and pent-up rage that appears to have been personified in the rise of Donald Trump with white, working class voters.

Empirical data is still sketchy with the details of how low-skill workers have failed to secure one of the fourteen million new jobs; however there are so obvious clues.

While some studies point to a lack of training as the root cause of joblessness for white Americans, other research suggests that it is college education which defines a person’s competitive level in the job market.

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (GUEW) published a study showing that the 1.1 million jobs created by the Great Recession were almost entirely employment positions necessitating some form of college education.

At the core of the problem is the fact that “of the 7.2 million jobs lost in the recession, 5.6 million [were] for workers with a high school diploma or less.”

As of 2007, there were 5.5 million fewer employment opportunities for Americans with only a high school diploma. The researchers wrote: “The recovery between January 2010 and January 2016 has favored workers with a Bachelor’s degree or higher the most. Of the 11.6 million jobs created so far during the recovery, nearly 75% have gone to people with a Bachelor’s degree or higher.”

According to their press release : “The Great Recession decimated blue-collar and clerical jobs, whereas the recovery added primarily managerial and professional jobs… Occupational and industry shifts have been major drivers of change in the labor market. Production industries, such as manufacturing, construction and natural resources, shifted from employing nearly half of the workforce in 1947 to only 19% in 2016.”

Administrative jobs have seen a 1.4 million positional decline as the rise of digital storage and automation becomes the norm. Those with a limited education cannot compete to operate the robotic machinery or gain employment in the IT industry.

And the “disappearance of this work is hitting those without college degrees the hardest” which is one of driving forces that explained the reason why Trump supporters feel left behind.

These people “tend to be in specific industries, high school educated and remembering that in the 1970s they were the dominant workforce. This is a new world.”

For the future, education will need to focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with an emphasis on college education. The sect of the population who is not versed STEM fields are also the same group which wants to tear down federal and state education systems.

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