Making it in America
From 1999 to 2009, the output of U.S. factories rose by about one-third, while one in three factory jobs disappeared. The advent of globalization and computer-aided productivity dramatically transformed the U.S. job market: the rewards for the skilled have grown, but the opportunities for the unskilled have dwindled. The resulting job crisis and income inequality cast the future of the middle class into deep uncertainty. Photo credit: Dean Kaufman