But Pete Bernardoni, a local venture capitalist, says companies have begun to take note of Sacramento's increasingly skilled residents.
Most important, perhaps, they have vast pools of relatively cheap and increasingly skilled workers who put pressure on jobs and wages in rich countries.Allied with technology, globalisation increases competition and exposes inefficiency.
As they become increasingly skilled, some of these young athletes turn professional or earn college scholarships.
And if he is, indeed, right – then how should US foreign policy adapt to a digital age in which secret policemen are increasingly skilled in the use of social media tools to maintain the power of authoritarian regimes?
As part of civil service reform, government communicators are becoming increasingly skilled at using digital channels, which are often more cost-effective than traditional media.
"American workers are increasingly competing with increasingly skilled and always cheaper labor in emerging markets", said Lonski.
In survival mode, you fight increasingly skilled opponents; in tag team, fighters battle in pairs.
Older historical accounts concerning the late 19th- and early 20th-century formation of an increasingly de-skilled and uniform labour force have given way to a more nuanced picture, so that the rise of the Labour Party is no longer interpreted, as it earlier was, simply as a consequence of the supposed emergence of this de-skilled labour force.
For the last four years, the department has said it needs to expand its cybersecurity force by as many as 600 skilled hackers if it is to keep pace with the influx of increasingly sophisticated threats.
Zheng Fanzhi, one of a group of increasingly popular and influential painters in their late thirties and early forties, says his could be the "last generation" of artists skilled in draughtsmanship.
