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Demagoguery as Unskilled Labor By Richard Fernandez February 23, 2016 Who's Obsolete? Brilliance in thrall to stupidity The importance of information to modern civilization was highlighted by a government report suggesting low wage jobs were doomed. "It's intuitive that automation will take low-wage jobs ... the White House, in its annual economic report of the president, has broken down just how much that is so." It essentially predicts that a person with a low wage job will be replaced by a robot. There's an 83% chance that automation will take a job with an hourly wage below $20, a 31%...

Young adults are the recession's lost generation. In record numbers, they're struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock, if they're becoming parents at all. The unemployment rate for them is the highest since World War II, and they risk living in poverty more than others - nearly 1 in 5. New 2010 census data released Thursday show the wrenching impact of a recession that officially ended in mid-2009. There are missed opportunities and dim prospects for a generation of mostly 20-somethings and 30-somethings coming of age...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

There will be no jobs for unskilled workers in Britain within 10 years, the leading employers' organisation claims today. The prediction is based on the growth in "outsourcing" manufacturing and sales jobs abroad to economies where staff are hired at a fraction of the cost. Digby Jones, the director-general of the CBI, will tell his annual conference in Birmingham: "There will not be any work in Britain for unskilled people . . . within one scholastic generation." In a survey of 150 companies, which employ 750,000 people between them, 51 per cent said the pressure to move their jobs abroad...