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Certain fields like nursing will do well as aging baby boomers retire. Also more nursing homes and assisted living facilities will pop up. The demand for trained professionals in this area will increase, but many foreigners will flock to the US trying to get these few good jobs. It is possible to see the future using inventor Steven Gibbs HDR. The future that we will be residing in. Overall, the US economic outlook is not good with US Hiring managers tightening their belts. Continued strength of inflation will cause real wages to decline. Even if you are lucky enough to get a raise you will be making less. Many graduates will be working at minimum wage McJobs as there is little work. Companies keep cutting back and outsourcing PROGRAMMER jobs to India. |
We will have over twenty million illegal aliens in the US, there is pressure on the government to "regularize" them and add them to the scores of unemployed getting assistance, this drives taxes upward for people with jobs. While employers hire even more illegals at starvation wages.
Republicans argue that raising the minimum wage caused unemployment that it should be reduced. They claim that the US cannot compete with China due to high labor costs.
However real unemployment will continue to rise as the economy slowly grinds to a halt due to problems caused by food and fuel. The price and availabilty of fuel causes gasoline to be rationed. Many students ride bicycles and little scooters to school.
Tuitions continue to increase as the government cuts funding to education. The government shuts down several large universities due to student protests.
Most colleges will be filled with student protests as a draft is passed to send even more troops to the middle east. The illegals are not sent after a few incidents, but given jobs here in the US, meanwhile citizens see their rights trampled by the corporate powers.
Many companies begin to fire workers for smoking, being too fat, drinking, and even "unhealthy lifestyles".
Due to outsourcing even "secure" government jobs begin to leave. The government argues that people in India can be trusted to do work that formerly required American citizens with high security clearances.
The value of certain college degrees declines drastically as more and more white collar jobs are outsourced.