Actually there has been not one net new job gain in Los Angeles in the past 24 years. This story first broke a year ago. Today I heard on KFI 640 AM the home of John and Ken and the Tim Conway Show there's been no change. California still has the welcome mat out at the Mexican border, liberals still run the City of Los Angeles and Angelenos are to scared to take a shower in fear Gov. Jerry Brown may be watching them washing their butts. A machinist looses his job and the job is replaced with a taco truck driver. Machinist ??? There was a time there was someone who lived with in a few houses from you who was a machinist. How many of you in Los Angeles today even know someone who's a machinist ? But I bet you know someone who works on a taco truck.
I don't how many times people can falsely blame education, but this article seems to have the most variations of the word per square inch as any article I have seen.
I don't just blame education but illegal immigration and liberal policies that made Los Angeles business unfriendly. It may be true there isn't an educated or skilled workforce available in the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. You are looking at a county (Los Angeles County) where 50% of the population are classified as being either illiterate or functional illiterates. The liberal bias Los Angeles Times spin on illiteracy in L.A. The study -> http://unitedwayla.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/LiteracyatWorkSum_Sep2004.pdf
I was referring to the article, not your post. Might as well say, "With better education, someone would invent a flying carpet and return textile manufacturing to the US so blue collar people can get jobs."
Interesting, but not really all that surprising. This was definitely something worth pointing to our attention. The city has been on a downward decline for the last 30 years, and there are many more low income people than there used to be. Illegal immigration over the years had a huge part to do with it. Just goes to show that more people does not necessarily mean more jobs. In fact, there's probably less job opportunity than there used to be, the only difference is many of the city's residents today are filling jobs people would not have done beforelike you mentioned, running a taco cart. Just in case anyone does not realize the obvious here, these jobs do not pay enough for an individual to rent in Los Angeles, much less to provide for a family. Huge numbers of people, typically extended family, get packed into a tiny dwelling space.
If anyone were to invent a flying carpet, I would bet it would be the Lockheed Skunk Works. But even Lockheed got out of Dodge (Burbank, Ca.) and moved the Skunk Works out to Palmdale. It's about the only thing Lockheed-Martin has left in California.
