An Invisible Future for American Jobs

Published: April 30, 2021, 8:02 a.m.

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Over the last several decades, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have withered. Meanwhile, health care has become the fastest growing job sector in the country, and it\\u2019s been on top for years. According to Gabriel Winant, a historian at the University of Chicago, and author of \\u201cThe Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America,\\u201d not only are those two opposing trends related, but there are also some serious consequences to the connection.

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