Showing posts with label service sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label service sector. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Hillary, speak to service workers

In this aphorism by Binyamin Appelbaum lies latent, I think, the organizing principle, articulated or not (okay, not), of Hillary Clinton's economic agenda:
Soon, we will be living in the United States of Home Health Aides, yet the candidates keep talking about steelworkers. 
Let's back up for some context. While U.S. manufacturing output is at an all-time high,  80% of Americans work in the service sector, Appelbaum reports, Yet politicians of both parties keep romanticizing and prioritizing manufacturing jobs: