BLS: Occupations typically requiring high school for entry lost 1.3 million jobs, May 2007 -- 16

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Occupations typically requiring high school for entry lost 1.3 million jobs, May 2007–16 https://go.usa.gov/xncvg #BLSdata

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Occupations typically requiring high school for entry lost 1.3 million jobs, May 2007–16

OCTOBER 05, 2017

From May 2007 to May 2016, the U.S. economy gained 6 million jobs. Occupations that typically require a high school diploma or the equivalent for entry lost 1.3 million jobs over that period. Much of this decrease resulted from job losses in manufacturing and construction around the time of the 2007–09 recession.

Occupations that typically require no formal educational credential for entry gained 2 million jobs from May 2007 to May 2016. Occupations in this education category include retail salespersons, cashiers, janitors, and most food preparation and serving related occupations.

Occupations that typically require a bachelor’s or master’s degree for entry gained 4 million jobs from May 2007 to May 2016. Among occupations that typically require some type of education beyond high school for entry, only one education category lost jobs: some college, no degree.

These data are from the Occupational Employment Statistics program. The typical entry-level education requirements assigned to each occupation are based on research by the Employment Projections program. The typical entry-level education requirement for an occupation may differ from the educational level of workers in the occupation and from the education employers require for individual jobs in the occupation. To learn more, see “Employment trends by typical entry-level education requirement.” We also have more data available by typical entry-level education requirement.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Occupations typically requiring high school for entry lost 1.3 million jobs, May 2007–16 on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/occupations-typically-requiring-high-school-for-entry-lost-1-3-million-jobs-may-2007-16.htm (visited October 06, 2017).

[LonePirate]

1. This is not good news for the deplorables.

[bearsfootball516]

2. That graphic tells the story of how Trump got elected.

Millions of low-education voters losing their jobs, having no college diploma to fall back on, and voting for the person who claimed he would get their factory jobs back for them.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

3. But jobs with "no formal education credential

required" had significant growth - enough growth to cover the jobs lost for people with high school diplomas and college dropouts.

If you crawl into the weeds at the BLS, it says:

Nearly 28 percent of May 2016 employment was in occupations that typically require no formal educational credential for entry. This education category includes the two largest occupations: retail salespersons and cashiers. Other occupations that typically require no formal educational credential for entry include janitors, maids and housekeeping cleaners, stock clerks and order fillers, personal care aides, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, and most food preparation and serving related occupations.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/employment-trends-by-typical-entry-level-education-requirement.htm