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DURING humanity's eons-long agricultural era, and throughout the smoke-belching Industrial Age, plenty of manual jobs usually were available to healthy workers with little education.
But after World War II, labor-saving machines began usurping physical tasks once performed by sturdy men and women. And now computers, the Internet and other high-tech features of the snowballing Information Age are wiping out what's left of the old sweat-of-the-brow economy. Blue-collar jobs are fading, and they pay less. America has little need for unschooled people.See the full content of this document
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Smart Jobs: ; Education Is Vital
In the new knowledge-based economy, "what you earn depends on what you learn," as former P...
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