Keep in mind something very important: Overall unemployment is currently pretty high, but when you break it up by education level it becomes pretty clear why.
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea05.htm
The higher the education, the lower the unemployment rate. For those with a Bachelors or better, unemployment is under 4%!
Our problem here in the US isn't that we don't have enough jobs for people... it's that we have a large chunk of our workforce that isn't qualified for the jobs we have available! As a society, we've transitioned towards needing much more skilled labor. It's rare to find a job that doesn't require computer use (Even working as a burger flipper requires you to interact with the restaurants Point of Sales system). Manufacturing jobs are becoming increasingly skill-based every year, especially with our increasing reliance on robotics in manufacturing (It's not about screwing part A to part B anymore. It's about monitoring and maintaining equipment that does that faster than you ever could). There are only so many jobs that an unskilled worker can do, which can really limit someone's career path.
The trick is to train the rest of the team to blame electrical instead. - Al3+ [more] 
15-11-2012, 14:36
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