Thu, 16 June 2016
One way to measure the success of an economy is its ability to create jobs to match its rising population. That’s hard to do when industrial jobs “are gone and not coming back.” Brookings economist Isabel Sawhill on growing new jobs for the post-industrial age, and preparing people to take them. One big change she foresees, the movement of men into health and teaching jobs presently dominated by women, as women finally get their fair share of science and technology jobs. |