In her speech, Yellen said that technology had allowed low - skilled jobs to be replaced
by automation while
globalization had also caused jobs that
require less education to move overseas.
The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy
requiring simple skills and technologies,
globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated
by the IMF and the World Bank.