A lot of the jobs listed are medical technician positions, for example, which typically require some kind of technical skills that can be achieved with postsecondary schooling like an associate's degree or a certification of some kind.
The numbers do support David Autor's argument that the work force is hollowing out, producing very low-skill service jobs that generally cannot be done by machines or workers abroad (like food services) and higher-skilled jobs that require greater schooling (like medical jobs).
When I started my doctoral study in the U.S., my wife expected me to play more active roles in my child's learning and schooling like American fathers.
Enrollment rates for additional schooling, like master's programs, are relatively equal to enrollment rates before the recession.
The law no longer condones segregated schooling like it did in the days before Brown, but an insidious system of stratified schooling exists all the same.
"They usually just aren't stuck in facilities long enough for them to be in round-the-clock schooling like is maybe needed today," he said.
