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...found in the economic proposals of George Bush and Bill Clinton? For his part, Sinai predicted a long grind, but saw bright spots emerging. David Hale, chief economist of Kemper Financial Cos., called for a combination of "Bush's trade policy with elements of Clinton's domestic policy." Dan Lacey, publisher of Workplace Trends, saw little in either candidate's policy to stimulate job creation. Gail Fosler, chief economist for the Conference Board, described consumer attitudes as stubbornly skeptical. Donald Ratajczak, director of the economic-forecasting center at Georgia State University, warned about the danger of trying...
America's structural burdens have hit home most profoundly in terms of jobs. The U.S. workplace is "in a profound, historic state of turmoil that for millions of individuals is approaching panic," according to labor consultant Dan Lacey, publisher of the newsletter Workplace Trends. Official statistics fail to reveal the extent of the pain. Unemployment stands at 7.6%, far lower than the 1982 high of 10.8%, but more people are experiencing distress. A comprehensive tally would include workers who are employed well below their skill level, those who cannot find more than a part-time job, people earning poverty-level...
...they learned how to use computers. They were rewarded with service-sector jobs in the 1980s, but now they're out on the street and no one wants them." Open season has been declared on corporate bureaucrats. "The middle manager has gone out of vogue in corporate America," says Lacey. "Indeed, the word manager is the kiss of death on resumes...
...prolonged period of stagnation that threatens to drag on for years. Companies have restructured, whole industries have scaled back their work forces, and staying lean has become embedded in the corporate consciousness. "This is the end of the post- World War boom era," says employment analyst Dan Lacey, who publishes the newsletter Workplace Trends. "We are never going to go back to what we knew. This is a permanent dismantling of corporate bureaucracies...
...which is undergoing a painful adjustment to the frugal '90s. Just last week Zale, the largest U.S. jewelry-store operator, said it would close 400 of its 2,000 stores and lay off 2,500 workers. "We are looking at the historic restructuring of the American economy," says Dan Lacey, an Ohio- based employment consultant. "It's not just decline; it's turmoil. Even those people who are still working have lost faith in their ability to stay employed. The memory of what's going on is not going to be erased from today's workplace any more than...