links for 2008-02-19

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  Silicon Valley Losing Middle-Wage Jobs - New York Times
  “The vanishing jobs — defined as those paying $30,000 to $80,000 — represent workers who had been in the lower part of the white-collar pyramid, including secretaries, clerks and customer support representatives.” Outsourcing and downsizing.
  (tags: shrinking+middle+class silicon+valley)


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  For Publisher in Los Angeles, Cuts and Worse - New York Times
  LA Times spiraling down: “the company said that 2007 newspaper ad revenue had fallen 8.5 percent (compared with about 7 percent in the entire industry) and that Los Angeles had among the sharpest declines in retail and classified ads. Mr. Hiller said he e
  (tags: la+times the+death+of+newspapers)