And with all trumps caterwauling about bringing back jobs ,reality says unskilled and semiskilled jobs aren't coming back for the middle aged, and forget about coal ,the only solution is a guaranteed income A Sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" — suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases. The new paper by two Princeton University economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, concludes that the trend is driven by the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with a high school diploma or less. The economists also argue that dwindling job opportunities have triggered broader problems for this group. They are more likely than their college-educated counterparts, for example, to be unemployed, This is a story of the collapse of the white working class," Deaton said in an interview. "The labor market has very much turned against them." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...g-class-deaths-of-despair-20170324-story.html
And as a counterpoint, someone else who criticizes this study : https://psmag.com/the-death-of-the-white-working-class-has-been-greatly-exaggerated-1c568d3e6b8c "That problem is called “lagged selection bias,” and this is how it works: If you’re measuring long-term phenomena, there’s a risk that the pool of people you’re looking at will change while you’re looking at them, owing to a separate trend. For example, if you were looking at the relation between 12th-grade cigarette smoking and income 10 years later, I’m sure that you’d find a serious drop during the past decade. But that wouldn’t necessarily mean the salaries of former teenage smokers are actually going down. Rather, smoking in the 12th grade has become a much rarer phenomenon — falling from 25 percent in 1997 down to 6 percent today — and it’s negatively associated with socioeconomic status. The 19 percent of high school seniors who would have smoked in the 1990s but wouldn’t think of it in 2017 throws off your analysis. What you’d actually end up detecting is not so much the relationship between teen smoking and future income, but changes in youth smoking behavior over time. The (ex-)smokers’ salaries could be increasing normally and you’d never know it by that method." I personally wonder if it has to do with the age group they focused their conclusions on--the 50 to 54--also happens to be the last wave of people who could buy beer at 18.
There have been several reports of the crisis of opioid addiction - in Trump territory. The bloated Rush Limbaugh uses opioids - oxycontin - maybe a side effect is repulsion of facts? That would explain why Trump continues to fool some - Drugs.
Matthew J. Fox Ph. D. felt that so many of us are going to be replaced by machines that ART in some form was one of the only possible ways to take steps in the direction of full employment. Made in the USA English language films of every Genre are, in my opinion, the best in the world, so I suspect that the entire world economy can be boosted by a new way of looking at money that makes it possible to produce films that have both Artistic as well as Theological value to many people. The relationship between the USA and Israel could play a central role in where some of those films are staged........ P. M. Benjamin Netanyahu, let's get into the production of....