[Snip] the economy lost 80,000 jobs last month and nearly a quarter-million over the last three months is the starkest signal yet that the country has probably fallen into a recession, with things on the job front expected to get worse.
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In an environment of a sluggish economy and rising unemployment, analysts said there will be some safe harbors where job demand will keep growing. First and foremost in this group will be health care, where the demographics of an aging population mean the demands for medical care will keep rising.
Also a bright spot in a generally bleak jobs picture will be education, again driven by the demographics of a rising population of school-age children and students attending colleges, community colleges and trade schools.
Healthcare and education, areas where Republicans traditionally hold sway.
That's a joke.
But really now, though I am relatively secure in my job as a nurse, due to the shortage of of people who do that sort of thing and a demographic scenario which indicates that market demand for healthcare is in ascension, I remain a worrier. That's what I do. I worry. My spouse says I "should be on something" for that.
We used to think that the markets for technology would continue a natural expansion. Then we used to think that real estate and home values would continue to rise.
Those things didn't happen.
