The recession has been more like a depression for blue-collar workers, who are losing jobs much more quickly than the nation as a whole, according to a new report by Northeastern Universityβs Center for Labor Market Studies.
The study estimated that the nationβs blue-collar industries have slashed one in six jobs since 2007, compared with about one in 20 for all industries, leaving scores of the unemployed competing for the rare job opening in construction or manufacturing, with many unlikely to work in those fields again.
Andrew Sum, the centerβs director and author of the study, said the rate of job losses suffered by blue-collar workers matches the plunge in overall employment during the Great Depression, when the nation as a whole shed about one in six jobs.
βThese guys used to be the backbone of our working middle class,ββ Sum said. βThe really scary thing is they have no jobs to come back to.ββ
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