AI Is Erasing Entry-Level Jobs. National Service Might Be The Answer.
Three million Americans graduated this year into the worst entry-level job market in two decades. Graduate unemployment is running higher than it did at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, and AI is quietly eating the exact tasks those first jobs used to be made of. Washington is floating the usual answers, universal basic income, federal job guarantees, retraining. But there is one old idea that speaks to all three crises at once, and it keeps coming back: national service.
Mike and Neal make the case that the economic crisis (AI gutting entry-level work), the social crisis (29 percent of…
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