Michigan's shift in employment toward white-collar jobs has occurred on a massive scale.

The trend in job creation, however, is toward temporary and part-time jobs.

The decline does not result from shifts in employment toward jobs in safer industries.

Younger workers traded information about their workplaces, perhaps with an eye toward future jobs.

Refugees are pushed toward short-term jobs, simply to get them employed.

But a growing number of analysts say the evidence increasingly suggests that the current recovery has indeed been tilted toward lower-paying jobs.

Remaining here year-round, they have gravitated toward more stable jobs.

But none of that money will go directly toward new jobs or operations.

They are having many fewer than their mothers did, reflecting changes in attitudes toward schools, jobs, sterilization and contraception.

But as contract talks wound down this week, he wanted something in return: to give them a head start toward permanent jobs.