How may I service you?A whopping 46% of the US workforce work in the service industry, from waitressing to cleaning hotel rooms. With low-wage, low-skilled jobs on the rise, service jobs are crucial to the post-GFC recovery.
Blue collar workers
Flint: Behold the arbiters, for they will decide the election
The crucial arbiters who will decide this election, the less interested and the undecided, still don’t know how they’ll vote. They look for similar values in a government to their own, which are mainly conservative, and they rely on common sense, writes David Flint.
Errington: Howard on the defensive, Rudd to the test
Little has been achieved in the past few weeks of jousting and speculation. The period since APEC has shown only what we already knew – that voting intentions are only going to change during the intensity of the campaign, if at all, writes Howard biographer Wayne Errington.
