Schooling in the Ownership Society: Fastest growing occupations in the U.S. require no degree

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Fastest growing occupations in the U.S. require no degree:

Fastest growing occupations in the U.S. require no degree

by Mike Klonsky

'Zip-code apartheid'

Edward Luce, writing in the Financial Times, reports on the changing face of the U.S. labor market. With the virtual decimation of our manufacturing sector and the flight of capital to emerging markets in the developing countries, a growing share of whatever jobs our economy is still managing to create is in the least productive areas -- the types that neither computers nor China have yet found a way of eliminating.

Of the five occupations forecast by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be the fastest growing between now and 2018, none requires a degree. These are registered nurses, “home health aides”, customer