{"id":32810,"date":"2012-06-01T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/economy_producing_jobs_at_both_ends_of_the_income_spectrum_and_hollowing_ou\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:15:51","slug":"economy_producing_jobs_at_both_ends_of_the_income_spectrum_and_hollowing_ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32810","title":{"rendered":"Economy Producing Jobs at Both Ends of the Income Spectrum, and Hollowing out jobs in the Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand remains for people with complex skills, like software engineering or the ability to read X-rays. There is also demand for people to take jobs that require less skill, like cleaning and waiting tables. It&#8217;s the jobs in the middle that are being squeezed \u201d\u201c sales, administration, assembly positions, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Economists have a term for this phenomenon: labor polarization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s happening is we&#8217;re getting jobs at both ends of the spectrum,&#8221; says Howard Rosen, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/27\/153781235\/help-wanted-but-not-for-mid-level-jobs\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand remains for people with complex skills, like software engineering or the ability to read X-rays. There is also demand for people to take jobs that require less skill, like cleaning and waiting tables. It&#8217;s the jobs in the middle<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32810\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,597,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}