'Yogurt bars' open in NYC amid Greek yogurt craze
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Is technology to blame for chronic unemployment?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 12:31 John Moore/Getty Images Job applicants wait to meet potential employers at the NYC Startup Job Fair held at 7 World Trade Center on September 28, 2012 in New York City. Most of us assume that at some point the economy is going to kick into gear. That unemployment will eventually drop below 6 percent, and that job creation will return to its previous clip of 200,000 a month. But what if we're stuck at a new normal of high unemployment and low job growth? It's possible because technology might just have gotten the best of us. It used to be that new technologies generated lots of new jobs for those displaced from old ones. After farms were mechanized, Americans moved to factories. After manufacturing declined -- in part due to technologies that dramatically cut the cost of shipping goods -- we moved into services. But new technologies have been eating away at services, too. Gas station attendants are long gone and telephone operators and bank tellers aren't ...
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