The official, Janet L. Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said that a sharp increase in worker productivity was "here to stay".
During that period, not only will people lose jobs, but the US will suffer a significant loss in productivity, a sharp decline in worker and business morale, an erosion of its competitive edge on the global stage, and a flight of investment capital out of the country.
The squeeze on wages, which the ECB has encouraged since its very foundation, has led to a sharp fall in workers' purchasing power, a rapid deterioration in the working class family's standard of living and to poverty.
Government employment shrunk by 7,000 jobs; a sharp drop in postal workers more than offset gains at the state and local levels.
Sex's lead character, Margy LaMont, is a sharp-witted sex worker who struggles to find a better life.
Ty Francis, a bank customer-service worker here with a sharp sense of humor, supports six children together with her partner, Rosalyn Cooley, a health care worker.
But coming as the American economy entered a sharp downturn, the layoffs hit workers, and Bryan, hard.
But even as the hiring of immigrants picked up during that period, those same workers "experienced a sharp decline in earnings".
A sharp rise in zero-hours workers of two to five years' standing confirms that this way of doing business is becoming not only more widespread but also more entrenched.
Other warning signs include mood swings, deteriorating relationships with co-workers and a sharp increase in job-related accidents.
