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  • AP IMPACT: Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs

    01/23/2013 7:02:56 AM PST · by george76 · 30 replies
    AP ^ | Jan 22, 2013 | BERNARD CONDON and PAUL WISEMAN
    Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers ... this "hollowing out" of the middle-class...