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Video | July 5, 2013

JOB POLARIZATION AND RISING INEQUALITY

The growth in high- and low-skill jobs, coupled with little growth in the middle-skill groups, has changed the composition of the workforce. The leftmost bars in Chart 3 show the share of U.S. workers in each skill category in 1980 and 2010. While both high-skill and low-skill job shares increased, the lower-middle skill group’s job share shrank. In 1980, nearly half of all workers were employed in lower-middle-skill occupations. Among the occupations in this group, machine operators accounted for 10 percent of the U.S. workforce and administrative support workers accounted for 18 percent.

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Video | June 12, 2013

Review of the Financial Plan of the City of New York

Over the past decade, City funding for education has more than doubled, rising from $6.2 billion in FY 2003 to $13.2 billion in FY 2013.

The May Plan assumes that the Department of Education (DOE) will reduce planned spending by a total of $1.2 billion during the financial plan period. This represents 40 percent of the total value of the agency program, which is greater than the DOE’s share of the City-funded budget. The majority of the savings would come from re-estimates of the cost of special education ($672 million) and from non-classroom efficiencies ($368 million). The DOE also intends to raise the price of school lunches by $1.00 for students whose families’ incomes exceed 185 percent of the poverty level.

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