Sentences with phrase «collar jobs leaving»

So whereas before it was blue collar jobs leaving older, high cost metros, now it will be mid-level managers, back office and other cognitive work where physical proximity to other people is less important.

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The blue collar factory worker is left floundering when his job is sent to China and his only options are lower wage retail or attending community college to be «re-trained» for jobs that may not exist or he can not fill.

«Jobs leave here, people with good blue collar jobs that are paying $ 80,000 - 90,000 a year.

According to Clinton, this means investing in blue - collar infrastructure and manufacturing jobs, raising the minimum wage, providing debt - free college education, and paid family leave.

This is a type of poverty that Johnson could not foresee: a decline in blue - collar jobs, rooted in global trends, requiring workers to gain skills that schools could not reliably impart, leaving whole communities economically depressed and isolated, while many children were deprived of economically stable and supportive two - parent families, leading to dangerously stalled social mobility and creating divisions of class that are inconsistent with the American ideal.

As access to blue - collar occupations has declined over the past three decades, they've been left unable to find work or are increasingly likely to work in jobs that pay less.