Axios newsletter summarized the recent report of the McKinsey Global Institute on the future of employment in the U.S. It confirms the forecasts of many studies which indicate that automation will be replacing a large number U.S. jobs in the near future.
Axios stated, “Almost 40 percent of U.S. jobs are in categories expected to shrink between now and 2030. Automation will affect some of the country’s largest occupational categories: office support, food service, production work, customer service and retail sales. The hollowing out of middle-wage work will likely continue, per the report, without deliberate intervention to provide workers with skills they need to get higher-paying jobs.”
Despite these predictions, business interests seeking cheap labor keep insisting that our country faces a severe labor shortage–which can only be alleviated by continued mass immigration
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