Re: 54,000 new jobs. Half of them hamburger flippers?
Out in the midwest, at least in the small town where I lived, entry-level was agricultural grunt work. I started out with Green Giant. I don't know about construction work - it never occurred to me to look for it.
As I look at the numbers I'm starting to realize that the real problem is. There just aren't enough jobs to go around, and it's not just that businesses laid people off temporarily and will rehire when things get better. In a long-running slow economy, businesses of all sorts are learning how to get the work done with fewer people because they had to. New jobs are going to have to come from brand new businesses, or the growth of old ones.