“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” PeopleJobsMotherParentEducationGrowing UpGrowingDaughterIndiaChinaDinnerMy DaughterStarvingHomeworkChina And IndiaWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.” JobsLosesFourPercentRateUnemploymentUnemployment Rate Author:Thomas Friedman
“In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.” KnowsWorldJobsOne ThingVery GoodAverageConnectedGood JobHyper Author:Thomas Friedman
“The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.” PeopleIfsWayYearsFactsTodayJobsCollegeDegreesRateUnemploymentSwitchingCollege DegreeUnemployment Rate Author:Thomas Friedman
“The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.” ReasonJobsGreaterRevolutionBecomingEqualSecureRequirements80sGlobalizationGood Job Author:Thomas Friedman
“If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsTodayJobsHouseNumbersHugeSkillsToolsMachinesStoresBranchesGapsBubblesNailsHammersStarbucksCalculusRetailHuge Numbers Author:Thomas Friedman
“Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.” JobsPastIndiaMexicoPakistanOutsourced Author:Thomas Friedman
“I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. I think it's that. That is the real challenge that we face today. Unlike the Soviet Union, it has no face, it has no missiles, but it is something that challenges every job, every city and every community.” ThinkingShouldRealTodayJobsFacesCommunityChallengesCitiesRevolutionShould HaveUnionsAlsSovietReplacedSoviet UnionGlobalizationMissilesMergers Author:Thomas Friedman
“What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.” JobsCan DoWorkWorkersEmployeeEmployersColumnistsJob Well Done Author:Thomas Friedman
“The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.” NeedsMadeBigsAbleJobsScienceProduceReadySmartWindowCrisisWorkersFinancialDeeperMathHolesGoogleStimulusFinancial CrisisShovels Author:Thomas Friedman
