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December 6, 2018

GM cuts are a warning for everyone: Blue and white collar jobs are at risk

  • Cities that lost manufacturing jobs decades ago are now seeing fewer opportunities for managers, lawyers, bankers and accountants.
    • By TOM KRISHER and JOSH BOAK
    AP Business Writers

    DETROIT — For generations, the career path for smart kids around Detroit was to get an engineering or business degree and get hired by an automaker or parts supplier.

    If you worked hard and didn't screw up, you had a job for life with enough money to raise a family, take vacations and buy a weekend cottage in northern Michigan.


     
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