Tag: Jobs
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Donald and the Robots
Why Donald Trump is wrong about job losses, what can be done about it (v little) and where will that leave us?
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs ; the General Election Battleground
This election will, in large part, be fought on the government saying “the economy was in rag order, we fixed it, reelect us”. A key element of this will be “we have created <insert large but not implausible number> jobs since we took over”. Missing will be any discussion of external circumstances but hey, its…
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Jobs, education and industrial inertia
This is a hyperlinked version of a column published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 28 April 2012 Recent research for the USA suggests that not only are many recoveries from crashes etc jobless for a long time, but that they also see the destruction of large numbers of ‘middle class’ jobs. When recoveries happen…