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Sometimes Repeating History Matters: Carnegie October 2024 Newsletter

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

By 2030, the activities that account for an estimated 30% of working hours could be automated by AI. The labor market implications are staggering. Approximately 12 million U.S. workers may have to find new jobs, and many more roles will be forever altered
 
This isn’t the first time we’ve experienced such a seismic transformation of the U.S. economy. At the turn of the last century, agricultural jobs evaporated – falling from one-third of all U.S. jobs to just 8%. In less than a lifetime, one quarter of the labor force left farming. 9.7 million jobs were lost and the vast majority of Americans lacked the skills the “new economy” demanded.
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