Here's some Grade A Bullshit from the usual suspects - but it includes a few number projections that, while not really meaningfull, provide some scale.
We need to create 21 million jobs by 2020, just to keep up.
Grabbed the link from Big Picture:
http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publicat...jobs/index.asp
Quote:
Recoveries are increasingly becoming "jobless" due to firm restructuring, skill and geographic mismatches between workers and jobs, and sharp decline in new start-ups.
The US needs to create 21 million new jobs by 2020 to regain full employment ? and only achieves this in our most optimistic job growth scenario.
The US workforce will continue to grow until 2020, but under current trends, many workers will not have the right skills for the available jobs. Technology is changing the nature of work: jobs are being disaggregated into tasks, work is becoming virtual, and firms are relying on flexible labor (temporary, contract workers). These trends offer new opportunities for creating jobs in the United States, a trend that some companies do not fully appreciate.
Progress on four dimensions will be essential for reviving the US job creation machine: develop the US workforces' skill to better match what employers are looking for; expand US workers' share of global economic growth by attracting foreign investment and spurring exports; revive the nation's spark by supporting emerging industries, ensuring more of them scale up in the United States, and reviving new business start-ups; and speed up regulatory decision-making that blocks business expansion and new investment.
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So, what these guys are saying is, temp jobs are the future, sorry workers, your old idea of employment has been disaggregated.
"geographic mismatches between workers and jobs" - as in, you are in the wrong fucking country.
And, the standard coprorate line of "we need a more skilled workforce" - combined with a complete lack of ideas for where these 21 million new jobs are going to come from. "Attracting foreign investment" - really? That's your idea, attract foreign investment in this country?
Also note what is not mentioned - the chronically underemployed - we have 9% unemployment, but another 11% underemployment. (this doesn't even count the unemployable or those off the employment map altogether, like a lot of freelancers, and, oh yeah, people like us, self employed webmasters) The underemployed are just fucked - counted as employed by the government, they simply don't matter, because they aren't part of the media numbers propaganda.
So, if you want to try the give the chronically underemployed a living wage, and 21 million jobs are what is need to employ the officially unemployed and the oncoming generations, what we actually need to create is about 41 million new jobs.
So, what effect do you think that the need for 41 million new jobs is going to have on wages and salaries in general here in this country? Make them go up?
The companies are making money, the economic elites are making money, the international and multinational marketplace is booming, but if you are part of the working strata in america you are well and truly fucked.