{"id":22639,"date":"2016-05-03T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22639"},"modified":"2016-05-03T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:19:18","slug":"what-happened-to-worcester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/05\/03\/what-happened-to-worcester\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Worcester?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Magazine<\/em> has the article What Happened to Worcester?<\/a>\u00a0 This is a very interesting story woven around the history of one family in Worcester to demonstrate the\u00a0social and economic history of this country. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the article that exemplify the range that this story covers.<\/p>\n

But long gone are the days when Worcester\u2019s plants offered a decent job to just about anybody willing to put in a hard day\u2019s work. New employees looking to join the middle class must have not just a high-school diploma but an associate degree, if not a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

For all its decline in the second half of the 20th century, Worcester did enjoy one bit of good fortune: In the 1960s, the University of Massachusetts placed its medical school in the city. The school, which continued to grow, brought several generations\u2019 worth of high-paying medical jobs and a fair number of lower-paying support positions. Similarly, Worcester\u2019s position close to the center of New England has been good for the transportation business. Many of my relatives who stayed in town have worked either in the medical center as nurses or in the transportation field as truck drivers, dispatchers, rail-yard inspectors. These are solid, stable jobs, but they don\u2019t enable the kind of jump-up in socioeconomic status that my family experienced many decades ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that we live much closer to Worcester than we’d ever had before and I’ve established some ties with people there, I can appreciate this story more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Magazine has the article What Happened to Worcester?\u00a0 This is a very interesting story woven around the history of one family in Worcester to demonstrate the\u00a0social and economic history of this country. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the article that exemplify the range that this story covers. But long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22640,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions\/22640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}