McJobs an empty-calorie fix for unemployment

We are starved for signs that the economy is picking up. So when
McDonald's threw its doors open to hire 50,000 workers nationwide, media
networks scrambled to film applicants lining up across the country for
that increasingly elusive piece of the American dream -- a job.

As the National Employment Law Project recently documented,
the economy added more than 1 million private-sector jobs last year,
but most of them came from mid- and lower-wage industries, like temp
jobs, restaurants and retail. Higher-wage industries such as
construction or financial services constituted 40% of job loss during
the recession, but have contributed only 14% of job growth as of
February. So not only are workers encountering few job opportunities,
they are seeing fewer well-paying jobs than before the recession.

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