Every so often, a statistic makes us pause and re-evaluate the world.
For me, it was a recent comment on a radio talk show that the American retail sector lost more jobs in the last year or so than the entire number of people employed in the coal industry. I looked it up to put some hard numbers to the statement — 89,000 retail positions lost between October 2016 and March 2017. The coal industry — counting miners, office workers, security personnel, everybody — employs just 53,000.
As a matter of fact, according to a Washington Post story on March 31, […]
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