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We lost a lot of high tech jobs recently. They've been replaced with service sector (lower pay) jobs.


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Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech ind...
JERRY COSTELLO We have simply lost a lot of high-paying jobs,
CHARLES WARREN Hopefully we can get high tech jobs in northwest Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM POWELL The jobs that have replaced them don't pay as well.
DON COFFIN With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past thr...
NICK LAMPSON The biggest thing is the decline in wages for the low and moderate income people. Part of it is larg...
ELIZABETH MCNICHOL A decrease in the number of service sector jobs contributed to a weakening of the labor market in De...
BARBARA RILEY I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his te...
BERNIE SANDERS We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and...
JOE GARCIA In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, expo...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON We would love to put a third or fourth store in the Raleigh market but it (the area's economy) has b...
DOUG SULLIVAN It's one of the few jobs, considered a service sector, that allows a person without a significant am...
BOB UHLENKOTT It's an important sector for Indiana as we try to grow our high-tech businesses and our high-tech in...
WESTON SEDGWICK In each instance, when we were talking about this, we were told that the high-wage jobs were going t...
TIM RYAN Our comprehensive plan already allows truck stops, motels and hotels at the interchange entrance to ...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI The fashion manufacturing sector sustains about 200 000 jobs and is vital to the economies of a numb...
EBRAHIM PATEL Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA...
TIM ROTH We think about the lost lives, lost property and lost jobs.
KANAGALINGAN JANENTHRA We are pleased to be working in partnership with Hudson Valley Community College on an initiative th...
ALAIN KALOYEROS Bringing Israeli technology to Akron will create jobs there. It will create a high tech environment ...
BRENDA ZEITLIN We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have ...
TIM SCOTT This (importing) has been done in the past. We have to save an almost 15 000 jobs which the sector e...
DAVID GOVERE The total number of hours worked in the private sector by production labor declined even though ther...
CHARLES MCMILLION I am naturally concerned. There is just not a lot of high paying jobs back here.
SCOTT BIAS The real goal is to attract business and create new high-wage, high-tech jobs here in the future. We...
TED ASTOLFI I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of s...
TYLER COWEN In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the informa...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.
DEBBIE STABENOW The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. The...
ALEXIS HERMAN The Bay Area's most heavily represented industries here are in management of companies and enterpris...
AMAR MANN We charted a new course from what we'd been following the previous 35 years. We went from (promoting...
JOHN GOWER The cost of living is so high these days that even though many kids have good jobs, their pay may no...
DENNIS MEANS Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-te...
NAM JUNE PAIK We obviously need the workers for a lot of jobs.
KARL BENSON If the price of oil stays high and our taxes along with it, I expect more jobs lost, more flights cu...
JAMES MAY The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. The...
ALEXIS HERMAN A lot of people are busy with their jobs, and we can do it for them.
MARILYN JONES We'll bend over backwards to help them find other jobs with the state government or with the private...
MAREN DALEY A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there unti...
PHIL GINGREY Some 85 percent of jobs created in the past 25 years have been in the public sector -- in other word...
NICOLAS SARKOZY It's only recently been catching on with school districts. There have been a lot of high-profile sca...
JODI SMITH I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r...
DAYMOND JOHN To some extent jobs created in the public sector will compensate for job cuts in the private sector.
ROSS WALKER These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher p...
MANUEL MIRANDA This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing. It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a se...
PHIL ENGLISH This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in ...
PHIL ENGLISH Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some...
ELAINE CHAO These are high paying jobs.
JACK LAVIN Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-...
DAVID KORTEN We're concerned with the long-term economic prosperity of Rowan County: jobs, jobs, jobs.
DYKE MESSINGER We believe High Tech Computer is now running at full capacity utilization in March, and its rolling ...
JOEY CHENG Over the years, I have visited manufacturing sites where AGOA is working, and seen job creation firs...
ED ROYCE As caregivers we love our jobs and the service we provide for the community. But how can our employe...
LISETTE PEREZ A lot of value-type stocks are finally getting recognized. Maybe there's some profit-taking in the h...
MIKE WINER I think it will take about 15,000 ordinary jobs to make up for the lost Ford jobs.
FRED ZIMMERMAN If we have fewer defense jobs and more casino jobs, you've got a more diverse set of jobs.
DOUGLAS FISHER Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs ...
KAREN MILLS U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens ...
CYNTHIA MORGAN Tech Industry job losses in New York slowed dramatically in 2004. We are seeing positive indicators ...
JUSTIN WRIGHT Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, m...
PAUL DONOVAN There are many new jobs, ... but they pay poorly.
BILL CHANDLER Whilst much attention has been given to UK companies outsourcing jobs to India, the fact is that suc...
MICHAEL CHARLTON We have a working relationship with Netscape as an ISV [Internet service provider]. What we have is ...
WILLIAM NEUKOM This service has created hundreds of new jobs and injected millions of dollars into our local econom...
JACOB DIPIETRE Because business users haven't had to deal with service-level agreements in their jobs, they might n...
LIZ HERBERT Obviously, there are always service jobs, however, those are not always self-sustaining wages. And, ...
KATHY LIVELY Most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In the past two years, we've seen the budget go from surplus to deficit, adding about $400 billion o...
LACY HUNT We are focusing on high-wage types of jobs to create wealth in the county.
GARY TUCKER A lot of small town business has been dwindling, and Moulton's no exception. They can't compete agai...
GARY HARRIS We replaced the players we lost with a new philosophy,
PIERRE LACROIX The Keystone Pipeline would create good-paying jobs. Not only where the pipeline is being built, goo...
CORY GARDNER Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U....
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS I'm for creating high-paying jobs.
THOM TILLIS The need to figure out how we can build those bridges so we can understand what's in our community, ...
WALT BLOMBERG A lot of people don't have transportation or cars. I know people who lost their jobs because they di...
DORIS TAYLOR You could buy anything there ... a full-service store with a meat market and everything. My dad prov...
ANNIE MCGEE We do a lot of recruiting locally, but can't find people who want seasonal jobs.
CINDY CLARK If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot...
GINNI ROMETTY As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-payi...
BILL DEDMAN Some jobs in manufacturing might well disappear as a result of weakness in housing, but this may be ...
EDWARD LEAMER We're suing them for what they should pay a coach of 25 years under a contract that turned down head...
CHARLES FLYNN In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most ...
TINA BROWN Most of the positions being outsourced are at the bottom of the totem pole, such as call-center jobs...
DAVID PATTERSON Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. T...
J. D. HAYWORTH A lot of employees have lost their jobs and, as I understand it, their pensions are probably in ques...
RICHARD GEPHARDT The jobs people are seeking have gone more high tech and so has the employment process. The job mark...
CONNIE KENNEDY Our strength (in Florida) is job creation, and our weakness is the quality of those jobs. It's nice ...
BRUCE NISSEN It's very clear -- investors only want to buy blue chips, not the entire high-tech sector.
HIROSHI SATO Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot o...
EMANUEL CLEAVER You have to use a lot of high-tech principles.
BOB CUNEO When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in mo...
DAVID BRENNER It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service
ALBERT EINSTEIN But we still do our jobs. Our pride in our jobs has been hurt, but I wouldn't say that it is gone.
JOE FRIDAY The real difficulty will be creating 1,900 good jobs for workers with high school diplomas ? full-ti...
JOHN BUDD These are very good jobs with high salaries in a growing industry that is very important to Georgia.
JEFFREY HUMPHREYS We are very concerned at the number of jobs that will be lost and are hoping to work with the compan...
CHRIS BALL There are still some barriers to some particular jobs that are more high paying jobs like high-level...
DR. PAT HEDBERG So when minister Erwin claims that there will not be thousands of jobs lost, he is just playing with...
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CONNIE STEVENS Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really gett...
CONNIE STEVENS I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
CONNIE STEVENS Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.
CONNIE STEVENS I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought...
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