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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This has been going on for more than 50 years but no one cared until it affected white middle income workers. [/b]

First most low-paying farm labor & sharecropping jobs disappeared due to mechanization and many of those poor people moved to cities. Then many of the unskilled labor jobs disappeared, then the low-skilled labor jobs, and now the skilled blue collar jobs.

At the same time, the number of jobs for women increased - not high-paying jobs but more professional careers. For a few decades the middle class survived because of the shift to two income families instead of one male breadwinner, but now the trend is increasing numbers of non-college educated men without good jobs and more unmarried college educated women.

It doesn't help when people like Trump and Sanders lie and tell them they could bring back the old manufacturing jobs. They can't. NAFTA didn't do this. It is primarily the result of technology advancements that are not ever going backwards. [b]People need the education and skills that are in demand in the current economy, not the ones that were in demand 40 years ago. [/b] [/quote]

Bingo! Just like the opioid epidemic.

The thing is, now GOP is in charge and their lies will be found out first. Next time around, Bernie's.

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