Beneath the headlines showing new figures on unemployment
(which do not include the unemployed who are no longer looking for work or
applying for unemployment compensation) is the story of the changing distribution of jobs in the American economy. That
distribution in turn can give rise to cultural or societal changes. When the
jobs in the economic middle are disproportionately lost, American society
increasingly resembles a tale of two cities—and by this I do not mean
Augustine’s heavenly and earthly cities though the realms of the “haves” and
“have nots” could admittedly be called as such by materialists.
The full essay is at "An Educational Industrial Policy."