At 6:02 PM 1/22/96, Richard Ira Lavine wrote: >I thought maybe this list would have some ideas...... > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:16:20 -0900 >From: C. Oleson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Reich questions > > >I may have the opp to do a radio interview with US Labor Secretary Reich. >Suggestions for questions welcome. (PLEASE: no polemics, no long-winded >opinions) Assume I have read his books and many of his major >publications. Thanks. Here's one. An agency within his department, the BLS, projects that most of the new employment growth over the next decade will be in the classic postindustrial shit job category - guards, orderlies, etc. So why does he persist in saying that the key to a prosperous future is training everyone to be a symbolic analyst? And given that job picture, what does he recommend to boost low-end earnings and reduce social polarization, which he actually seems to care about? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>