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Written by Stumo
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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Good news. You have 28 occupations that are likely to be the source of many future new jobs. Trouble is... none support a family above subsistence level. Bob Oaks reprinted this.
Peggy Wireman, author of Connecting the Dots: Government, Community and Family, said that 50% of all new jobs created in the next 10 years will be in just 28 occupations, and of those 28 occupations, only five will require a college degree. This is good news for individuals who don’t want a degree, but bad news for those who’d like to make enough money to support a family, according to Wireman.
Of the 28 occupations she examined, none of them supported a family of four above the “self-sufficiency” level, which is twice the poverty level or higher. Eight of the jobs would not support a family of four even at a poverty level; 11 would support a family at the poverty level.
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