{"id":31530,"date":"2012-08-08T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=31530"},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:56:21","slug":"refections-upon-an-insightful-article-by-jonny-dymond-the-decline-of-us-manufacturing-jobs-and-living-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/08\/08\/refections-upon-an-insightful-article-by-jonny-dymond-the-decline-of-us-manufacturing-jobs-and-living-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Refections upon an insightful article by Jonny Dymond &#8212; &#8220;The decline of US manufacturing jobs and living standards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-18992241\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The decline of US manufacturing jobs and living standards<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from bbc.co.uk by Jonny Dymond BBC News, Michigan<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For decades America&#8217;s vibrant manufacturing sector provided poorly educated workers a bridge to the middle class. But today&#8217;s plants need highly skilled workers who know their way around ultra-high tech machinery.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">While manufacturing levels are back up, unemployment rates continue (<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewmcafee.org\/2012\/08\/the-new-era-of-us-manufacturing-good-news-and-bad-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">McAfee, 8\/8\/12<\/a> &#8211;&gt; &#8220;But new manufacturing facilities in America and elsewhere today don\u2019t need large numbers of hard-working-but-unskilled workers; they need small numbers of hard-working-and-highly-skilled ones.&#8221;).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I have a feeling the middle class is going to continue to shrink here in America, <em>unless we can reinvent ourselves.<\/em> But reinventing ourselves requires that people learn about new things &#8212; something much more feasible if people <em>like<\/em> to learn.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Upon graduating high school, do our students like to learn? Upon graduating college, do your students enjoy learning about new things? If not, how can we make learning more engaging and enjoyable?\u00a0 That&#8217;s imporant these days because there&#8221;s no more hopping on the corporate bandwagon for 40 years and then retiring with a nice pension\/401(K) plan.\u00a0 All of us will need to &#8220;go back to our drawing boards&#8221; many times during our lifetimes now. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-08-03\/we-re-still-12-million-jobs-away-from-normal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We\u2019re Still 12 Million Jobs Away From Normal<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from bloomberg.com by Mark Whitehouse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decline of US manufacturing jobs and living standards &#8212; from bbc.co.uk by Jonny Dymond BBC News, Michigan Excerpt: For decades America&#8217;s vibrant manufacturing sector provided poorly educated workers a bridge to the middle class. But today&#8217;s plants need highly skilled workers who know their way around ultra-high tech machinery. 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