Blame the Messenger

You can argue that Donald Trump is the wrong vehicle through which to express anger, but you can’t argue that the anger many Americans feel isn’t justified. “The U.S. spends only 0.11 percent of its gross domestic product on labor market adjustment programs, which ranks far below other developed countries.” From Pacific Standard: This Chart Helps Explain Why People in the Rust Belt Are Fed Up.

+ “This divergence in fortunes for those with and without higher education has coincided with another divergence—that between America’s growing cities and its struggling rural regions.” Alana Semuels in The Atlantic: America’s Great Divergence.

+ NYT: Wanted – Factory Workers, Degree Required.

+ Silicon Valley is taking away jobs. More production is moving offshore. While those who seek to polarize us often pit Hollywood against industrial America, it turns out that both are facing some of the same global forces. From Nick Bilton: Why Hollywood as we know it is already over. (Even Baristas are getting squeezed out…)